Sinking Tuvalu fights to keep maritime boundaries as sea levels rise


  • World
  • Tuesday, 24 Sep 2024

Aerial view of Funafuti, Tuvalu’s most populous island, September 6, 2024. Picture taken through plane window. REUTERS/Kirsty Needham

FONGAFALE, Tuvalu (Reuters) - Tuvalu and its 11,000 people, who live on nine atolls scattered across the Pacific, are running out of time.

Fukanoe Laafai would like to start a family. But she is struggling to reconcile her plans with rising sea levels that scientists predict will submerge much of her homeland by the time her children would reach early adulthood.

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