In the next 30 years, Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Fiji will experience at least 8 inches (15 ...

Much of Kiribati (pronounced KEE-ree-bas) lies only several feet above sea level. According to predictions ... sea levels will rise 0.85 to 2.5 feet. If the earth warms by 2°C, sea levels will ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has projected that if the rate of global CO2 emissions continues to increase and reaches a high emission scenario, sea levels would as a result very likely ...

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

Sea level rise due to human induced climate change is a hot button topic. But as a new book reveals, its history has long been a struggle.

The cost of physical adaptation, by building seawalls in urban centres, house raising and inland relocation, for a sea level rise of up to 0.5 metres, was estimated at $3.7 billion for Kiribati ...

Aquaculture ponds fill a reclaimed area beside the airport on Tarawa, Kiribati’s capital and its most densely populated atoll. Much of Tarawa is less than eight feet above sea level and risks ...

A study cited by the IPCC — the UN’s top climate change body — projected that the island nations of Tuvalu, Maldives, ...

she didn’t have much choice — rising sea levels and the increased frequency of extreme weather had made her home in the small South Pacific nation of Kiribati unlivable. In the documentary ...

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 ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from NTU Singapore, and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands, ...