From PBS Terra.

As sea levels rise, low-lying islands like the atolls of the Pacific and Indian Oceans – including nations like the Maldives – are supposed to disappear beneath the waves. Or, that’s what many of us were told. But evidence suggests that many of them are actually GROWING, not sinking. So that’s a good thing, right? Well, not really. Weathered’s Maiya May explains.

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