Sinking Tuvalu fights to keep maritime boundaries as sea levels rise
Aerial view of Funafuti, Tuvalu’s most populous island/ 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./ "I think we are about to sink," said the 29-year-old clerical worker. Tuvalu, whose mean elevation is just 2 m (6.56 ft), ...
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