The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Monte Carlo - The tiny Pacific island state of Tuvalu is the 213th member of the world governing athletics body IAAF. The IAAF said on Wednesday that Tuvalu has been granted provisional membership. The formal membership is due to be confirmed at the ...
Article Archive (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
Tuvalu was also known as Ellice Islands. It is situated in the Pacific Ocean somewhere between Australia and Hawaii. It is the third least populated country in the world. Tuvalu consists of nine land masses which is circular shaped and is found in the central region of the Pacific Ocean.
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
The Monday Reuters agency report in the Herald on changing sea levels in the Pacific island group of Tuvalu, "Sinking Culture Snapped", is misleading. Since instrumentation was installed in 1993 on Tuvalu's main island Funafuti,...
Microweb News (Free subscription) | 03/15/2008
The government of the nine islands counting Tuvalu large alarm has hit. The tropical grounds threaten to disappear as a consequence of the hothouse effect in the Large Ocean. The country counts currently about 11,000 inhabitants. [...]
News & Information (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
(Kyodo) _ The government decided Monday to send a survey team to the South Pacific island nations of Fiji and Tuvalu to check sea-level rises from global warming and related damage. ……Read more
BBC News (Free subscription) | 01/22/2008
The nine tiny South Pacific islands of Tuvalu only just break the surface of the ocean - but for how much longer?
Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 12/20/2007
THE Rotuma Council will look at possible trade links with Tuvalu if their island is declared a port of entry.
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
Fukuda Says Japan To Send Environment Research Group To TuvaluTOKYO (Kyodo)--Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda told visiting Tuvalu Prime Minister Apisai Ielemia on Thursday that Japan plans to send a research group to Tuvalu next year to seek ways to cooperate with the country, which is threatened by rising sea levels and other influences of climate change, government officials...
Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 12/03/2007
A Tuvalu government ship will operate the Suva-Rotuma route after local ship-owners failed to show interest in providing the service.
Blah3 (Free subscription) | 11/10/2007
I'm not even sure I know where Tuvalu is. Paul Krugman touches ever so lightly on health care costs in this post on his blog. Having recently received my copy of the NY Times 2008 Almanac , I can tell you I was a bit surprised to see the statistics on the percentages of GDP spent on health care by various countries around the world (Page 374, but only through 2003). This information is readily...
Bitch News (Free subscription) | 09/16/2007
Spiegel Online writes here: International legal experts are discovering climate change law, and the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu is a case in point: The Polynesian archipelago is doomed to disappear beneath the ocean. Now lawyers are asking what sort of rights citizens have when their homeland no longer exists.
Our Descent Into Madness (Free subscription) | 09/13/2007
Tuvalu is a little island state in the Pacific… For now. Rising seas will likely swallow the island whole inside of fifty years, displacing some 10,000 people. “We keep thinking that the time will never come. The alternative is to turn ourselves into fish and live under water,” Tuvalu Deputy Prime Tavau Teii told Reuters in [...]
Bow. James Bow. (Free subscription) | 09/02/2007
Okay, it's been a long day; let me see if I have this right: At noon today, our esteemed parliamentarians — or 160 of them, anyway — declared war on the island country of Tuvalu, “so we can choose...
HoustonChronicle.com -- Soccer (Free subscription) | 08/27/2007
In Oceania, the South Pacific Games double as early qualifying, with the top three teams in this tournament advancing to a second-round group with New Zealand, the remaining power in the region following Australia's move to the Asian Football Confederation. The second-round winner meets Asia's No. 5 team in a home-and-home playoff for a World Cup berth.
