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Marshall Islands: Rising Sea Disturbs the Dead, Threatens Islands

2014-06-07 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: A World War II gravesite has been flooded by rising seas levels around the Marshall Islands, washing away the bodies of 26 fallen soldiers. This served as a macabre warning of the threat climate change posses to all small island chains, according to a recent United Nations Report. "These last spring tides in February to April this year have caused not just inundation and flooding of communities but have also undermined regular land, so that even the dead are affected," said foreign minister Tony...

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