{"id":38115,"date":"2021-10-17T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/17\/rising-sea-levels-threaten-marshall-islands-status-as-a-nation-world-bank-report-warns"},"modified":"2021-10-17T04:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T19:00:06","slug":"rising-sea-levels-threaten-marshall-islands-status-as-a-nation-world-bank-report-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38115","title":{"rendered":"Rising sea levels threaten Marshall Islands\u2019 status as a nation, World Bank report warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large parts of Pacific country\u2019s capital would be permanently flooded and islands would disappear, according to new projections<\/p>\n<p>Projected sea level rise would mean 40% of the buildings in the Marshall Islands\u2019 capital of Majuro would be permanently flooded and entire islands would disappear, potentially costing the Pacific country its status as a nation, according to a devastating new report from the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The report, Mapping the Marshall Islands, containing grim visualisations of the impact of sea level rise on the Marshall Islands, has been two years in the making and was shared exclusively with the Guardian ahead of its release in coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/17\/rising-sea-levels-threaten-marshall-islands-status-as-a-nation-world-bank-report-warns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large parts of Pacific country\u2019s capital would be permanently flooded and islands would disappear, according to new projectionsProjected sea level rise would mean 40% of the buildings in the Marshall Islands\u2019 capital of Majuro would be permanently floo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1911,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,326,602,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-change","category-marshall-islands","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38116,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38115\/revisions\/38116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}