Combating climate change: Tuvalu threatened by rising sea levels

Combating climate change: Tuvalu threatened by rising sea levels

18 NOVEMBER 2013

Debate is heating up in Poland as a two-week UN Conference on Climate Change continues. And scientists warn that it'll be much more than extreme weather to come in the future.

They sing of land and future. But for the people of Tuvalu, neither is necessarily guaranteed. Scientists warn that by the end of this century, rising global sea levels may submerge this remote Pacific island nation, making its 10,000 people the world's first official climate refugees. ...

 

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