Sea level rise may sink island nations
February 3rd, 2010 
Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin
Discovery News: There are few legal precedents for how these nations can exist without dry land. Island states need to act now if they want to preserve even their ocean territories. Sea level rise from anthropogenic global warming could erase some island states from the face of the Earth -- but those nations could survive even without land, say researchers. Governments and people of lost islands could survive "in exile," build structures to mark their submerged territory, retain their ......
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