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Is Bangkok sinking? Thailand''s capital at the mercy of climate change and rising sea levels
In Copenhagen and in other Danish cities, intriguing elevated benches have been installed to raise awareness about climate change. "In large parts of the country we will see flooding as an everyday occurrence, so we try to illustrate that with the elevated bench to get people to talk about climate change," explains Kasper Adsbøll, a senior brand manager at television channel TV2, which initiated the project.
"When I sleep at night, I wake up, I am always thinking about the rising waters, it has become an obsession," says Poeta Carolo, spokesperson for the St. Joseph chiefdom, north of the island of Ouvéa in New Caledonia. Called "the island closest to paradise" thanks to its ribbon of white sand that runs along its west coast and its turquoise waters, Ouvéa has been partly listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 2008. But due to rising sea levels and sand depleted by industrial projects, its 25 km of beaches no longer compare with those on which the Kanak leader spent his youth.
Footage released over the weekend shows thousands of starfish washed up on a beach on the Russian island of Sakhalin near the village of Starodubskoe after a storm shook the area on Thursday night. According to scientists from the Sakhalin Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, the incident is nothing unusual and similar beachings have have happened before afrer heavy storms, but worried locals aren't convinced and have called for an investigation, raising environmental concerns.
Pope Francis spoke out once more about dangers of a global environmental catastrophe, saying that humanity "will go down" if it does not address the issue of climate change as he spoke to press on board his plane on Monday while returning to the Holy See from a trip to Colombia.
Plus de 2.000 personnes ont participé dimanche à une marche blanche pour exprimer leur "solidarité" aux victimes de l'incendie meurtrier qui a dévasté le 14 février trois immeubles à Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque, près de Perpignan, tuant huit personnes.
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