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'We're not giving up': Beset by climate change, island nations act as conscience of a warming world

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.

'We're not giving up': Beset by climate change, island nations act as conscience of a warming world

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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.

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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.

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