Paradise Lost . NOW on PBSJust this week, a top UN official predicted that by the middle of this century, the world should expect six million people a year to be displaced by increasingly severe storms and floods caused by climate change. But for many island nations in the South Pacific, climate change is already …
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By James Painter BBC Latin America analyst Climate change experts in North and South America are increasingly worried by the potentially devastating implications of higher estimates for possible sea level rises. The Americas have until now been seen as less vulnerable than other parts of the world like low-lying Pacific islands, Vietnam or Bangladesh. But …
GLOBAL: Getting to the bottom of sea-level rise 10 Mar 2009 18:19:38 GMT Source: IRIN Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author’s alone. JOHANNESBURG, 10 March 2009 (IRIN) – In the past few months, newspapers across the globe …
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