Woman works to deepen awareness about sinking nations

FUNAFUTI, Tuvalu -Photo taken Feb. 1, 2014 in the capital of Tuvalu shows Haruna Kitazoe, who spent four years in living on Tuvalu, a small island nation in the southern Pacific Ocean, to report on the effects of rising sea levels caused by global warming.

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