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Eye of the storm - climate change in the Pacific
2016-02-16 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio New Zealand: Whenever Anote Tong gets a chance to go fishing along the coast of his island, he expects to find yet another line of coconut trees that have been toppled by coastal erosion. The president of the Republic of Kiribati, a nation of 33 tiny islands spread across a large swath of the central Pacific, has watched rising seas take beaches, crop plantations and entire villages, leaving nothing but a flooded church building. For islanders, he says, climate change is real now. "Entire communities have...
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