US President Donald Trump may dismiss

Prime Minister Terrance Drew, responding to Trump's blistering attack at the United Nations on the science of planet-warming fossil fuels, said: "Everyone has the opportunity to express themselves."

But for his 45,000 countrymen and women, "it is not a matter of any discussion, it is a reality we are living," Drew told AFP on the sidelines of the world body's high-level week in New York.

"So I would invite persons to come... and see what we are dealing with," he said.

Tourism has long been the mainstay of the economy of St. Kitts and Nevis, a twin island nation famed for its pristine beaches and diverse ecosystems.

Drew said those were now under threat from a type of algae known as sargassum that thrives in warmer waters, piling up along coastlin

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