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Bikini islanders seek US refuge as sea levels threaten homes

2015-10-27 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BBC: About 1,000 Bikini islanders have applied to relocate to the United States as rising seas threaten their adopted home. The residents were moved from their Pacific atoll as result of atomic bomb tests in the 1940s. But their new home, on another of the Marshall Islands, is struggling against huge tides and increasing storms. The islanders have now asked Washington to change the terms of a trust fund to allow them settle in the US. In 1946 several hundred islanders were moved from Bikini...

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