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Previous studies have discussed the increasing accumulation 
of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and associated climate 
changes, including a rising sea level, with implications for 
U.S. coastal cities. Although the investment in dollars is 
generally considerably less on inhabited atolls, the low 
topography, small size, and tropical location of these atolls 
makes them especially vulnerable to the host of changes that 
recent climate models describe. The Laura section of Majuro 
Atoll in the Marshall Islands is used as an example for a 
case study. Modelling results indicate potentially increased 
storm damage, loss of land area and severe impacts on 
groundwater supplies.