Residents of Nukufetau Atoll participated in awareness sessions and received hands-on training in eradication techniques.

NASA scientists project daily tides by 2050 will submerge half the atoll of Funafuti, home to 60% of Tuvalu's residents, ...

Villages cling to a strip of land as narrow as 20 metres in parts of Funafuti, the main atoll of Tuvalu in the Pacific Ocean, September 6, 2024. REUTERS/Kirsty Needham.

Most Tuvaluans live on Funafuti, which is just a few feet above sea level. Concerns like these underpinned an agreement two years ago between Tuvalu and Australia, with the latter pledging not ...

Tuvalu is a tiny island nation nestled in the central Pacific Ocean, between Australia and Hawaii. Its capital, Funafuti, is not just an island but also home to the international airport and most ...

Funafuti residents have mixed opinions about the agreement. Some feel it’s a welcome pathway for those who might want to leave. Others are concerned it encroaches on Tuvalu’s sovereignty.

In the heart of the Pacific Ocean, on a narrow atoll barely rising above the sea, sits one of the most remarkable pieces of infrastructure in the world, not because it is the largest, or the busiest, ...

FUNAFUTI, Tuvalu — In her plywood house, perched between the Pacific Ocean and an emerald lagoon, Miloitala Jack dreams of somewhere safe and dry. Somewhere her home won’t shake in ever more ...

FURTHER information has been received this week from Prof. David, of Sydney, as to the progress of the boring at Funafuti. On September 6 it had reached a depth of 987 feet, passing through a hard ...

It has one airport, on Funafuti, that services just a handful of flights each week from Pacific neighbor Fiji. When no planes are landing, the runway is used by locals as a playground for all ...

That forecast assumes a 1-metre rise in sea levels, while the worst case, double that, would put 90% of Funafuti under water. Tuvalu, whose mean elevation is just 2 metres (6 feet 7 inches), ...