Marshall Islands Climate Change

When It Hits Home...

Mark Stege | Posted 04.22.2012

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Mark Stege

Both my homes are now disappearing. Last week on Taroa, I saw that beaches have begun to creep inland and coconut trees have fallen sideways, the sandy soil beneath inundated by the expanding ocean.

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If An Island State Vanishes, Is It Still A Nation?

AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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CANCUN, Mexico — Encroaching seas in the far Pacific are raising the salt level in the wells of the Marshall Islands. Waves threaten to cut one ...

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