Some climate change impacts may appear sooner than expected
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 - 08:41
in Earth & Climate
For the 70,000 residents of the Marshall Islands, global climate change isn't a theoretical concern with far-off potential consequences. The island nation is nowhere more than six feet above the Pacific Ocean, and because sea levels are already rising, the nation's leaders have made plans to move to higher ground in the Fiji Islands.