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Radio 4,25 May 2009,30 mins

Carteret Island

Costing the Earth

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Tom Heap witnesses the first large scale human evacuation due to climate change. The Carteret Islands are slowly being submerged by the rising sea, forcing the removal of hundreds of islanders to nearby Papua New Guinea.

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