Drought is a life-or-death situation for low-lying islands

Grist
By Andrea ThompsonMay 7, 2016, 7:04 am292 pts
From the vantage point of a boat bobbing on the deep blue waters of Majuro Lagoon, the encircling shores of the Pacific coral atoll are normally verdant with tropical vegetation. But on a recent sailing excursion with friends, Angela Saunders was struck by how brown and withered the island looked. “The…

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