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Global warming creates world’s first climate change refugees

France 24
Wednesday 25 March 2009 14:24 GMT
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With sea levels rising, residents of the islands which comprise the Carteret atoll off the coast of Papau New Guinea are fast becoming some of the first refugees of global warming.

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