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As seas rise, Pacific island pres favors buying land abroad
2014-09-22 12:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The president of the Pacific island state of Kiribati favors buying more land abroad after a purchase in Fiji, to secure both food supplies and perhaps a future home if rising sea levels swamp low-lying atolls. Anote Tong, in Norway on a stopover to view melting Arctic ice pushing up sea levels before he attends a U.N. climate summit in New York on Tuesday, said he wanted to lay conditions for "migration with dignity" from the islands. Kiribati, a nation of 100,000 people scattered over 32...
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