Tuvalu citizens try to escape rising sea levels
A third of Tuvalu’s 10,000 citizens have applied for Australian “climate visas” – two of the island nation’s nine coral atolls are already submerged and the archipelago could be uninhabitable within 80 years
PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS AND TERRITORIES AT RISK
800km
500 miles
Very likely
Marshall Islands
New Caledonia
Samoa
Hawaii
Solomon Islands
Kiribati
Micronesia
Palau
Guam
Australia
Papua New Guinea
Nauru
Vanuatu
Fiji
Niue
French Polynesia
Tuvalu
Cook
Islands
American Samoa
Tonga
Wallis and Futuna

Tuvalu projected days’ flooding per year*
50th percentile
Likely
300 days
200 days
100 days
0.1m
0.2m
0.3m
0.4m
0.5m
0.6m
0.7m
2022-37
2035-56
2045-70
2057-84
2066-97
2074-2100
2081-2100+

*Local sea level rise at 3.0˚C global warming, 0.5m flood threshold
Sources: France 24, NASA
Picture: Getty Images
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