Pacific island nations and conservation groups have failed to persuade the body that oversees tuna fishing in the Pacific to introduce more stringent measures to protect tuna supply.

Under pressure: millions of people are moving to places that are more vulnerable to environmental disaster, including the Dharavi slum in Mumbai

Wellington: New research has cast doubt on warnings that rising sea levels caused by climate change are slowly inundating low-lying Pacific islands.

Scientists have studied 27 low-lying Pacific islands, comparing aerial photos from 60 years ago with modern satellite images, according to an article published in the New Scientist.

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Tuvalu and 40 other nations in the Caribbean and the Pacific under the Alliance of Small Island States are now in the process of collecting signatures in support of their stand

On Wednesday, the small Island nation of Tuvalu led a few developing countries in a walkout from the conferencing, forcing the conference to shut down for a few hours.

The tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu was rebuffed on Wednesday in its quest to demand strong action to curb global warming, and the US for the first time outlined a dual path toward cutting greenhouse gases involving both Obama's administration and Congress.

Amid worsening climate change-related problems for small island states, Tuvalu has established a national goal of being powered entirely by renewable energy sources by 2020.