Boxer secures Tuvalu’s first Commonwealth Games medal without winning a bout
Boxer Tarona Taafaki made history for Tuvalu by winning the Pacific island nation’s first Commonwealth Games medal without winning a single fight
April 2026
World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns – and climate health impacts are ‘mother of all injustices’
Former UN climate chief to co-chair Lancet Commission examining how sea-level rise is reshaping health, wellbeing and inequality
January 2026
As climate crisis threatened her home, Alolita was offered a chance at a new life in Australia
Alolita Tekapu and her family among the first arrivals under a world-first agreement that allows people from Tuvalu to move to Australia
December 2025
The long read
The best of the long read in 2025
The Audio Long Read
Best of 2025: Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land – podcast
November 2025
South Pacific nation of Tuvalu rebukes Trump’s ‘shameful disregard’ at Cop30
Minister from islands facing extinction is one of few delegates directly calling out Trump’s climate policies
October 2025
‘Humanitarian’ visa must be created for Pacific Islanders displaced by climate crisis, experts say
Calls for reform to allow people across the Pacific threatened by climate crisis to more easily migrate, particularly to New Zealand
September 2025
The Audio Long Read
Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land – podcast
With sea levels rising, much of the nation’s population is confronting the prospect that their home may soon cease to exist. Where are they going to go?
By Atul Dev. Read by Mikhail Sen
August 2025
Tuvalu considers pulling out of Pacific leaders’ summit amid China-linked power struggle
The long read
Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land
July 2025
Bateteba left what once felt like ‘the safest place in the world’ to build a life in Australia. Thousands hope to follow
With more than 80% of Tuvalu’s population applying for ‘climate visas’, the tiny South Pacific island nation’s Australian diaspora is only set to grow
June 2025
Countries should keep their statehood if land disappears under sea, experts say
Long-awaited ILC report examines what should happen to vulnerable countries as sea levels rise
Nearly a third of Tuvalu citizens enter ballot for climate-linked visa to relocate to Australia
Thousands from Pacific island nation under threat from rising seas enter ballot that awards visas to 280 citizens a year world-first deal
A climate crisis, a ballot, and a chance at a new life in Australia
World-first agreement that creates a visa in the context of climate change stirs hope among young people in Tuvalu
May 2025
The woman unlocking the mysteries of the deep sea in Fiji
Nicknamed ‘Moana’, Charlene Erasito is the only female Pacific Islander on the expedition to document unexplored parts of the ocean
April 2025
Hell is not other people – it’s being stuck in the ninth circle of an automated telephone service
Hilary Freeman
Tuvalu marks ‘momentous occasion’ with unveiling of its first ATMs
December 2024
Taiwan president stops in Hawaii during Pacific tour, drawing ire from China
Lai Ching-te’s US stopover on trip to Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Palau – three diplomatic allies of the self-governed island – prompts Beijing’s protests
November 2024
Australia accused of ‘exporting climate destruction’ on tiny Pacific neighbours with massive gas expansion plans
Labor government ‘not acting in good faith’ when it stands on global stage and promotes its climate credentials, special envoy at Cop29 says
August 2024
‘Immoral and unacceptable’: Tuvalu calls on Australia to set urgent deadline to end fossil fuels
A day after agreement was ratified at the Pacific Island Forum, the country’s climate minister says ‘root cause of climate change’ must be addressed
