Increase in sea levels due to global warming could lead to 'ghost states' | Environment | The Guardian

Increase in sea levels due to global warming could lead to 'ghost states' | Environment | The Guardian: "Maldives

Rising temperatures and rising sea levels threaten small island states such as the Maldives, which face being abandoned. Photograph: Chad Ehlers/Getty Images

Global warming could create 'ghost states' with governments in exile ruling over scattered citizens and land that has been abandoned to rising seas, an expert said yesterday."