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In the UK, low lying land such as coastal regions of East Anglia, or even central London may be more at risk of flooding. Elsewhere in the world, millions of people could lose their homes because the land they live on becomes too dangerous to live on. Some islands as in the Seychelles may disappear under water and  large parts of Bangladesh may become uninhabitable. 

Lake Hume only 4% full. Photo CC suburbanbloke

Where people live depends on the weather. Where it rains we can grow food, where it doesn't we can't live. Cities often grow up next to major rivers. Climate change may both drastically change the amount of water available and, crucially, where it is.

Australia  This is already happening in Australia in the Murray River basin, where a huge area of farmland that supplied much of Austrlia's grain is turning into desert, because the rains have gone. This has already been called the first climate disaster in the developed world.
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The River Nile provides the water for millions of people in north Africa and there is evidence that it is shrinking due to climate change. This has happened before during a previous climate shift, when roughly 14 thousand years ago, the river stopped flowing for 1300 hundred years. The lakes Tana (Ethiopia) and Victoria (Tanzania) which are the sources of the Nile stopped filling up, because the rains changed. 
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If these rivers dried up, where would all the people who depend on them go?

In many parts of the north and south polar regions, the increases in temperature are causing the permafrost to melt. Ground that has been frozen solid for thousands of years is turning to mud.

In Alaska, the people of Newtok are being forced to move their entire village, because without the frozen permafrost, the buildings are literally sinking into the mud and local rivers are eroding the ground so fast that the current village will be swept away.
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