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Paradise almost lost: Maldives seek to buy a new homeland
* Randeep Ramesh in Male
* guardian.co.uk, Monday November 10 2008 00.01 GMT
* The Guardian, Monday November 10 2008

The Maldives will begin to divert a portion of the country's billion-dollar annual tourist revenue into buying a new homeland - as an insurance policy against climate change that threatens to turn the 300,000 islanders into environmental refugees, the country's first democratically elected president has told the Guardian...

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