Maldives ministers prepare for underwater meeting

(The Guardian): Politics in the Maldives will sink to a new low later this month, when the nation’s cabinet holds its first meeting underwater. The country, a collection of atolls and islands in the Indian Ocean, stands less than two metres above sea level, and as climate change causes seas to rise it will probably be the first nation to sink beneath the waves. Under the threat of that looming watery Armageddon, President Mohamed Nasheed has announced plans to hold a cabinet meeting under the sea.

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