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We are sinking, says Maldive, but there is still time to save the world
Sep 23 2009, Sanyog

The President of the Maldives, the Indian Ocean islands threatened with extinction by rising sea levels, told the United Nations climate-change summit yesterday that the country’s appeals for help had fallen on deaf ears for 20 years.

“Once or...

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