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Pictured today: the Tuvalu Minister for Sponging complains that slush fund levels are not rising fast enough.

Using remotely sensed data, change is analysed over the past four decades, a period when local sea level has risen at twice the global average (~3.90 ± 0.4 mm.yr−1). Results highlight a net increase in land area in Tuvalu of 73.5 ha (2.9%), despite sea-level rise, and land area increase in eight of nine atolls. Island change has lacked uniformity with 74% increasing and 27% decreasing in size. Results challenge perceptions of island loss, showing islands are dynamic features that will persist as sites for habitation over the next century, presenting alternate opportunities for adaptation that embrace the heterogeneity of island types and their dynamics.

Patterns of Island Change, Nature Communications February 2018

Illustration: a gang of Tuvaluan Polar Bear Supremacists lynch a Penguin. This is why there are no longer any Penguins on the atolls.

The Tuvalu Pavilion at CON26.