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An abandoned house next to a small lagoon on South Tarawa in the central Pacific island nation of Kiribati in 2013. Nations like Kiribati and the Marshall Islands may disappear due to climate change.

In Pacific island nations, there’s nowhere left to run from climate change

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As world leaders discuss future steps against climate change, some nations say they simply don’t have time to wait. Many, like the Marshall Islands, are Pacific island nations whose citizens are already fleeing rising waters and disappearing homes.

Most of Miami-Dade County and greater South Florida is barely feet above sea level, with new development moving into some of the most flood-prone areas.

For Miami’s immigrants, some of the cheapest land is the most vulnerable to climate change

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