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The first climate refugees - by frog
Next year forty 40 families from Carteret Island, dubbed the ‘world’s first climate change refugees’ by the United Nations, will relocate to the nearby Papau New Guinean island Bougainville. Their current island home is expected to be submerged by 2015. This strikes me as the some of the most shaming and important news of the [...] read moreNovember 11, 2008 12:29 pm - 22 Comments
