Sinking Tuvalu fights to keep maritime boundaries as sea levels rise

Aerial view of Funafuti, Tuvalu’s most populous island, September 6, 2024. Picture taken through plane window. REUTERS/Kirsty Needham

FONGAFALE, Tuvalu (Reuters) - Tuvalu and its 11,000 people, who live on nine atolls scattered across the Pacific, are running out of time.

Fukanoe Laafai would like to start a family. But she is struggling to reconcile her plans with rising sea levels that scientists predict will submerge much of her homeland by the time her children would reach early adulthood.