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Losing the Marshall Islands

2014-03-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Centre Daily: The Marshall Islands are a leading advocate of international action on climate change. If you ever needed an illustration for why, this is it. This week an unusually high tide, sometimes called a king tide, swept through the island nations capital city, Majuro. Even something as modest as a swelling tide can have an outsize effect in the Marshalls, which comprise low-lying islands in the Pacific Ocean the highest elevation in the entire island chain is just 10 meters. Around 1,000 people were...

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