Pacific island nations are in 'grave danger,' due to rising sea levels, UN chief says

"Rising seas are a crisis entirely of humanity's making. A crisis that will soon swell to an almost unimaginable scale, with no lifeboat to take us back to safety."

"A worldwide catastrophe is putting this Pacific paradise in peril. The ocean is overflowing."

"This puts Pacific Island nations in grave danger. About 90% of the region's people live within 5 kilometers of the rising oceans."

"Since 1980, coastal flooding in Guam has jumped from twice a year to 22 times a year. It's gone from five times a year to 43 times a year in the Cook Islands."

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