+Water | October 7, 2011

Tuvalu Goes Dry

By Bryan Walsh

From TIME’s Allison Berry: The tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu has declared a state of emergency because it has only several days’ worth of fresh water remaining, after being ravaged by an extended drought.  Neighboring New Zealand and Australia have stepped in and offered to provide desalination equipment, which would keep the islands from running [...]

+Climate Science | June 14, 2010

Revisiting that Sinking Feeling

By Krista Mahr

The conventional wisdom that Asia and the Pacific’s thousands of low-slung islands will be swimming with the fishes by the end of this century is getting a second look. A recent study of 27 Pacific islands featured in New Scientist reports that many — including the infamously doomed Tuvalu — have remained stable in size [...]