'We're Not Giving up': Beset by Climate Change, Island
Palau and Tuvalu say rising seas are erasing land and burial grounds as island leaders urge faster fossil fuel cuts.
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'We're not giving up': Beset by climate change, island
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — When Palau President Surangel Samuel Whipps Jr. recently took his children to his nation’s Helen Island, two-thirds of it was gone. Rising seas caused by climate change had swallowed generational burial grounds, washing
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The Seattle Times‘We’re not giving up’: Beset by climate change, island nations act as conscience of a warming world
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — When Palau President Surangel Samuel Whipps Jr. recently took his children to his nation's Helen Island, two-thirds of it was gone. Rising seas caused by climate change had swallowed generational burial grounds, washing away a people's…
'We're not giving up': Beset by climate change, island nations act as conscience of a warming world
When Palau President Surangel Samuel Whipps Jr. recently took his children to his nation's Helen Island, two-thirds of it was gone. Rising seas caused by climate change had swallowed generational burial grounds, washing away a people's entire culture and identity.“For us, it's devastating,” Whipps told The Associated Press on Friday, 40 years after his previous visit. “It doesn't mean we should give up.”In the global power game of the United Nat…
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