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A picture taken in December 2008 shows a cemetery on the shoreline in Majuro Atoll being flooded from high tides and ocean surges. The low-lying Marshall Islands, a Pacific atoll chain that rises barely a meter above sea level, has announced plans for a wall to hold back rising sea levels.

Watery graves

I wonder how long the people of the Marshall Islands will be able to hold back the sea.

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