Tuvalu, whose mean elevation is just 2 m (6.56 ft), has experienced a sea-level rise of 15 cm (5.91 inches) over the past three decades, one-and-a-half times the global average. By 2050 ...

Global sea-level rise is predicted to accelerate, however, over the course of the 21st century.” About 11,000 people live on Tuvalu. Roughly half live on the main island that is home to the ...

New Zealand-based physical geographer Paul Kench, who has worked in Tuvalu, doesn’t question the prospect of future sea level rise. But he does suggest that low-lying islands like Tuvalu won’t ...

It's called the Doomsday Glacier because of its potential to dramatically raise sea levels in places such as Florida, and it ...

If sea level rise proceeds beyond one meter ... such as the Maldives, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati and Tokelau, affecting half a million people. Many times more will be affected in large ...

The digitisation project will begin with recreating Teafualiku Islet, Tuvalu's smallest island and the first part of the country that will be lost if sea levels continue to rise. Tuvalu's small ...

Research led by the Union of Concerned Scientists reports that emissions from the world's largest fossil fuel and cement ...

Tuvalu, a small island nation located in the Pacific Ocean ... To tackle this issue, we must first develop a plan to counter the rise in sea level based on an understanding of how the islands are able ...

and the rate of rise is getting faster and faster," said Josh Willis, a sea level researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a statement. Warming oceans cause sea levels to go up ...

But it also affects sea-level rise and Earth’s rotation — datasets the research team used to better track water storage for decades longer than previous studies. “What we were looking for ...

Global sea level will rise rapidly in the coming century; perhaps by more than 1 meter. This is primarily caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (source: IPCC). Submerged peat ...