Factoid/2010/04/06
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Disappearing Island States Due to Rising Seas from Global Warming
- "Several island states will likely physically disappear during the coming century, a phenomenon that has not previously been seen in modern history, notes a recent paper in the journal Ocean and Coastal Management. ...That fate, they say, awaits countries built on low-lying atolls -- such as Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands in the Pacific and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean -- as a result of sea-level rise." - excerpt appeared in this SeaWeb Ocean Update.
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