11 SEPTEMBER 2013
In 2004, then president of the Marshall Islands, Kessai Note, claimed his people could become the world's first climate refugees.
In 2013, his country is battling back from a drought so severe it saw a state of national disaster declared, while last month the nation's capital Marjuro was swamped by 2.5-metre waves which crashed over the low-lying coral atoll, smashing the sea wall in places and forcing the closure of the airport.
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