WASHINGTON - Former Marshall Islands president Hilda Heine began her speech at the East West Centre's International Media Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii last week on the threat of climate change to Pacific island states.
But the island nations are feeling a different kind of heat - and one that is all too familiar.
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