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Jun 17, 2015 · If sea levels rise as feared, some of the world’s island nations may disappear this century. Does that mean they no longer exist as countries, asks Rachel Nuwer. As the seaplane lifts off...
Jul 8, 2024 · This Pacific island country is disappearing. What happens next? Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation on the frontline of the climate crisis, is fighting to retain its land—and its identity. A couple...
Jun 30, 2023 · FUNAFUTI, 28 JUNE 2023 (THE GUARDIAN) — Small island nations would rather fight than flee, but rising sea levels have prompted apocalyptic legal discussions about whether a state is still a state if its land disappears below the waves.
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Science cannot tell us exactly when our homeland will become uninhabitable. But it does tell us how. As the ocean rises, salt water permeates into the aquifers that provide our drinking water. A rising ocean brings higher tides, and with increasing storm intensity, our villages and fields are devastated. Flooding leaves soil saline, which reduces c...
Tuvalu has not yet reached the end of this process of salination, destruction, degradation, and demise. But we are well past the beginning. Despite international agreements and repeated commitments, global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, with many countries still pursuing a future fueled by coal, oil, and gas. This is the first time in h...
We need a global settlement that guarantees nation states such as Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands a permanent existence beyond the inhabitable lifetime of our atoll homes. It must recognize and protect our cultural integrity, our human and economic capital, and our sovereignty. It must be co-created and enacted with the peoples and governments of I...
Feb 14, 2018 · This Pacific Island Was Expected to Disappear, But It's Actually Growing Larger. The Polynesian island nation of Tuvalu has long been marked as a prime candidate to get swallowed up by the ocean as sea levels rise, but new research shows the land mass of the nation is actually expanding.
Nov 20, 2022 · If a country is swallowed up by the sea, does it cease to exist? Leaders are getting creative in how they try to preserve their nations if they become uninhabitable.
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The science is indisputable; the small low-lying South-Pacific nation of Kiribati will eventually disappear as sea levels continue to rise due to climate change. With predictions from the latest...
