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Simultaneous disasters batter Pacific Islands
2013-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: High tides have surged over sea walls defending the capital of the Marshall Islands, adding to the crisis situation in this tiny Pacific nation, where a state of emergency was declared only last month because of a devastating drought in the scattered northern atolls. In the last week, what the islanders call "king tides' have repeatedly flooded parts of the capital, Majuro, and its airport, in one of the countries most vulnerable to sea level rise. Near to danger: houses on the Marshall Islands...
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