Tuvalu, the fourth smallest nation in the world, is made up of nine tiny islands in the South Pacific; five are coral atolls, the other four are independent islands. Located between Hawaii and ...

Tuvalu is a group of nine tiny islands in the South Pacific which won independence from the United Kingdom in 1978. Five of the islands are coral atolls, the other four consist of land rising from the ...

SYDNEY — Voting started Friday in the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, in a national election that could reverberate from China to Australia. With just over 11,500 people, Tuvalu is one of the ...

FOR OVER three decades the Pacific island country of Tuvalu has implored industrialised countries to cut their greenhouse-gas emissions. For over three decades global temperatures have ticked up.

SYDNEY, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Tuvalu is looking at legal ways to keep its ownership of its maritime zones and recognition as a state even if the Pacific island nation is completely submerged due to ...

Nearly half the citizens of the tiny Pacific Island nation have already applied in a lottery for Australian visas amid an existential threat from global warming and sea-level rise. By Max Bearak As ...

Tuvalu, the fourth smallest nation in the world, is made up of nine tiny islands in the South Pacific; five are coral atolls, the other four are independent islands. Located between Hawaii and ...