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8 Countries That are Sinking


We've all heard about the possibility that the Maldives could go underwater because of rising seas caused by climate change. But there are other nations facing the same risk.

Not that going underwater is the only form of danger: climate change is finding vulnerabilities in countries from Mexico to Russia, droughts in already-arid countries will grow worse, and the number of climate refugees worldwide is growing steadily.

Rainforests are threatened, disease is exacerbated, and hardest hit are poor populations and women around the world.

But, it's still probably fair to say that the greatest threat from climate change faces small island nations that could be washed underwater with just a slight rise in sea levels. Here's a look at a few of those nations.

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Bangladesh





20 million people are expected to be displaced because of rising seas caused by climate change.

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Papua New Guinea





TreeHugger wrote last May: "The Carteret Islanders of Papua New Guinea have become the world's first entire community to be displaced by climate change." Papua New Guinea shares an island with Indonesia, another nation threatened by climate change.

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Barbados





It's not just faraway islands that Americans had never heard of before climate change started being talked about. Host of the Barbados Conference that focused on this issue back in 1994, Barbados is another of the small island nations at risk. According to UNESCO: "With populations, agricultural lands and infrastructures tending to be concentrated in the coastal zone, any rise in sea-level will have significant and profound effects on settlements, living conditions and island economies. The very survival of certain low-lying countries is threatened."

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Maldives





And, of course, the one we all know, thanks to last year's underwater cabinet meeting held by Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed to bring attention to this issue.

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