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India's 'climate refugees' flee monsoon flooding
2013-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Le Monde: In 2012, out of the millions of people displaced by natural disasters around the world, over a quarter were from northeast India. Almost nine million inhabitants were forced to flee the region's devastating monsoon. These forced displacements are a common occurrence. Floods have become so routine in Assam, a state located at the foothills of the Himalayas, irrigated by one of the world's mightiest river -- the Brahmaputra -- that a special administrative post was created to deal with natural disasters....
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Americas first climate refugees: Its happening now The village is sinking
2013-05-18 14:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: One afternoon in the waning days of winter, the most powerful man in Newtok, Alaska, hopped on a plane and flew 1,000 miles to plead for the survival of his village. Stanley Tom, Newtok`s administrator, had a clear purpose for his trip: find the money to move the village on the shores of the Bering Sea out of the way of an approaching disaster caused by climate change. Newtok was rapidly losing ground to erosion. The land beneath the village was falling into the river. Tom needed money for bulldozers...
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Climate Refugees?
2013-05-14 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Islands Business: Threats of landslides have delayed the relocation plans of two coastal villages that have been badly affected by coastline loss and frequent sea flooding. The Fiji Government has set aside more than half a million dollars for the relocation of Narikoso village in Kadavu and Vunidogoloa village on Natewa Bay in Vanua Levu. Planning on moving the village of Narikoso in Ono, Kadavu, went very well until it was discovered that the land on the new village site has stability issues, explains Colonel...
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