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Fiji, moving villages inundated by rising seas, wants big emitters to pay

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Serua, FijiReuters Boats moor next to living rooms on Fiji’s Serua Island, where water breaches the seawall at high tide, flooding into the village. Planks of wood stretch between some homes, forming a makeshift walkway as saltwater inundates gardens. Village elders always believed they would die here on prized land where their chiefs are buried. […]