16 MARCH 2014
Last week, the worst high tide in 30 years surged through the capital of the low-lying Marshall Islands, destroying homes, displacing a thousand people and covering the city in trash swept up from a submerged landfill.
Seasonal “king tides” are nothing new in the Pacific islands. But over the last year Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands, has been hit by three serious tidal floods, one of which, last June, closed the airport and swept through the president’s home – even as other atolls in the country were suffering devastating drought.
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Source: Thomas Reuters Foundation