Rising Seas and Powerful Storms Threaten Global Security
Standing before the United Nations General Assembly in October 1987, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives, made an appeal representing "an endangered nation." That year for the first time, "unusual high waves" in the Indian Ocean inundated a quarter of the urban area o...
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Earth Policy Institute
2008
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Online Access: | https://issuelab.org/permalink/resource/1327 |