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Researchers stunned after analyzing nearly 1,000 'vanishing' islands: 'I'm not sure we really knew what we would find'
In a stunning twist of fate, nearly 1,000 low-lying tropical islands once considered doomed are now growing in size, defying dire predictions of …
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