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Think you know the odd effects of global climate change? Take our quiz.

Climate change conjures images of long, hot summers, melting ice caps and stranded polar bears. But as the weather gets stranger, so too does its effects on the environment, sometimes in the oddest of ways. How well do you know the signs of change?

5. The president of what island nation announced plans to buy more than 5,000 acres of land in Fiji in case rising waters force its 103,000 inhabitants to evacuate?

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An unnamed Indonesian island in Riau province is pictured in this October 2007 file photo. Rising sea levels threaten the existence of low-lying island nations.

Barbados

Japan

Sri Lanka

Kiribati
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