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Compensation for Island Nations Suffering from Sea Level Rise?
December 6, 2012 | Bloomberg

As Earth’s climates change and sea level rises island nations face flooding, loss of real estate, damage and even total inundation. Some of these island nations of are looking to industrial nations for compensation.


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