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As climate change threatens this string of islands, residents are racing to secure a world-first climate migration visa to ...
A first-of-its-kind lottery for residents of Tuvalu who want to move to Australia due to climate change threats is closing today, with more than 5,000 applications received.
Tuvalu is one of three remaining Pacific allies of Taiwan, after Nauru cut ties this month and switched to Beijing, which pledged more development support. Taiwan on Thursday said China was trying ...
Tuvalu is a deeply traditional nation that fuses age-old beliefs with devout Christianity. At 6.45pm every day for example, the entire country falls silent - traffic must stop ...
Tuvalu may be just the first island country to begin the foray into a virtual, computerized existence — from reality in the midst of the Pacific into being sustained by electrical impulses, 1s ...
Tuvalu’s foreign minister has given a speech to the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow standing knee-deep in seawater to show how his low-lying Pacific island nation is on the front ...
SYDNEY: Nearly one-third of citizens in Pacific nation Tuvalu are seeking a landmark climate visa to live in Australia as rising seas threaten their palm-fringed shores, official figures obtained ...
Tuvalu, a small country in the Pacific Ocean made up of nine coral islands, is reckoning with a future where it may no longer be habitable.Sea level rise, caused by climate change, is eating away ...
The Brief. Tuvalu’s minister for justice, communication and foreign affairs, Simon Kofe, unveiled a radical plan at Cop27: Tuvalu was to become the world’s first ’Digital Nation’.
The Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project, for which construction began last October, is expected to add more than seven hectares of new land to Funafuti, using sand and limestone dredged from the lagoon.
Tuvalu’s capital island, Funafuti, is an 11-mile crescent of coral encircling a 106-square-mile lagoon. There is one airport, one bank, one hospital and one road that spans the length of the atoll.
ANKARA. Tuvalu, a small Pacific island nation with a population of just over 11,000, faces a dire future as rising sea levels threaten to submerge its nine coral atolls until the next century.