Posted by
Kayly Ober on August 23rd, 2010 |
(ClimateWire) August 23, 2010 – Rising ocean levels brought about by climate change have created a flood of unprecedented legal questions for small island nations and their neighbors. Among them: If a country disappears, is it still a country? Does it keep its seat at the United Nations? Who controls its offshore mineral rights? Its [...]
Posted by
Dan DaSilva on November 7th, 2009 |
edToolbar() In addition to my last post, below is a short video by the Environmental Justice Foundation, a UK-based charity calling for international protection for environmental migr buy cheap cialis ants. As part of their ‘No Place Like Home‘ campaign, EJF talked to President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives and Premier Tolagi of Niue about [...]
Posted by
Dan DaSilva on October 18th, 2009 |
(AFP) October 18, 2009 – MALE – Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed, who staged the world’s first underwater cabinet meeting at the weekend, is emerging as the global stuntman in the battle against climate change. Nasheed, 42, dived with his cabinet to the sea bottom Saturday in an effort to press December’s UN summit in Copenhagen [...]