World leaders need to see rising oceans in Pacific: UN official

Leaders from the world's top economies should stand on a Pacific atoll to see the reality of record sea level rise, a top UN official said in Palau Monday. Noting last week's deadly floods in Nepal, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said rising seas in the Pacific were the "other side of that story

A UN report found that up to 1.2 billion people could be displaced by 2050 amid a record pace of sea level rise.