If warming trends continue, the oceans could rise by nearly one additional metre around the Pacific and the Indian Ocean islands by the end of the century. “You could have land somewhere, people somewhere else, and government in the third place,” Kamal Amakrane, managing director of the Global Centre for Climate Mobility at Columbia University, told AFP. Amakrane, a former …
If rising seas engulf the Maldives and Tuvalu, will those countries be wiped off the map? But "we haven't had a situation where existing states have completely lost territory due to a physical event, or events, like sea-level rise, or severe weather events," noted Sumudu Atapattu, of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. "You could have land somewhere, people somewhere …
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