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India among top 10 countries affected by climate change

New Delhi: Local climate change and pollution from the use of fossil fuels killed nearly 5 million people around the world in 2010, according to a report released earlier this year by climate change advocacy

India TV News Desk Updated on: May 24, 2014 8:06 IST

 7. Tuvalu

 



The low-lying Pacific islands of Tuvalu face the very real threat that they could be wiped out by climate change.

The highest point of the islands reaches only four and a half metres above sea level, and the coral upon which the islands are built is seeping sea water, making much of the land too salty to farm.

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