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Tuvalu and the Climate Crisis: How the World's Fourth-Smallest Country Is Fighting to Survive
Tuvalu — nine coral atolls, 26 square kilometers, 11,200 people — is the world's fourth-smallest country by area. It's also become the global face of the climate crisis: a nation that could lose its physical territory entirely within decades. Tuvalu'...
The Marshall Islands: Nuclear History, Ocean Culture, and a Nation Between Tides
The Marshall Islands occupy 1,225 islands and islets forming 29 coral atolls in the central Pacific — a nation that has endured one of the most devastating legacies of the 20th century and continues to face existential challenges from rising seas. Un...
Kiribati: The Remote Pacific Atoll Nation on the Frontline of Climate Change
Kiribati (pronounced "KEER-ih-bahss") is one of the most remote nations on Earth — 33 coral atolls and raised reef islands scattered across 3.5 million square kilometers of the central Pacific Ocean, an area larger than India. With a total land area ...