Climate change creates migrants. Biden considers protections
By JULIE WATSON SAN DIEGO (AP) — Ioane Teitiota and his wife fought for years to stay in New Zealand as refugees, arguing that rising sea levels caused by climate change threaten the very existence of the tiny Pacific island nation they fled, one of the lowest-lying countries on Earth. While New Zealand's courts didn't dispute high tides pose a risk to Kiribati, about halfway between Hawaii and Australia,