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United Airlines Flight 154 starts at Honolulu.

When it leaves, it carries not only a full load of passengers,

but also a mechanic and spare

parts for the plane.

On its journey, it stops into Marshall Islands at Maduro and Quagulin, before heading west

to make three stops in Micronesia, and finally it stops in Guam.

The next day, it turns around and does the same route in reverse. Landing in Maduro, you can see the ocean on both sides of the plane.

In fact, you can see the ocean on both sides of the plane from a disturbingly low height.

And despite this being one of the larger islands in the Marshall Islands,

it almost looks like the plane wouldn't fit on it without a wingtip overhanging the lagoon.

The plane does fit, of course, and there's even room left at Maduro Airport for the best airport It almost looks like the plane won't fit on it without a wingtip overhanging the lagoon.

The plane does fit, of course, and there's even room left at Majora Airport for the best

airport bar that I've ever seen.

But even after a couple of hours in the company of the island's finest whiskey collection,

it's very clear that the Marshall Islands are in a great deal of danger when it comes to

rising sea levels.

The Marshall Islands don't have much land to begin with, and through no fault of their own,

their island paradise is being gradually lost to the ocean.

To start with, I want to let Kathy Gentil Kijner, the poet who he heard from yesterday,

outline the scale of the threat.

Climate change is a challenge that few want to take on,

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