Run out of space? No problem. Just build on another room. In the case of an entire country that is sinking into the Indian Ocean, the situation becomes a bit more acute. Technically, The Maldives isn’t sinking, the sea levels are rising and slowly swamping the low-lying Indian Ocean nation, scattered south west of India. The Maldives, a country of some 500,000, is slowly being engulfed by the sea and its residents becoming ‘climate refugees’. 80% of The Maldives is less than 1 metre above sea level. The effect on the outlying islands has already been profound over the past […]
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