COLOMBO: The Maldives faces the threat of extinction from rising sea levels, but the government said yesterday it was looking to the future with plans to build homes and a golf course that float.
An increase in sea levels of just 18 to 59 centimetres (seven to 24 inches) would make the Maldives – a nation of tiny coral islands in the Indian Ocean – virtually uninhabitable by 2100, the UN’s climate change panel has warned.
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