The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are finally wrapping up their royal tour of Asia and the Pacific despite the distraction of Kate's topless pic scand...
The children in Tuvalu are enthusiastic and brimming with excitement. My time in here was accentuated with many, many children -- children bounding in...
After a particularly non-formal process of getting my passport stamped, I walked the approximately 100 feet to my hotel, ready to explore this little slice of geological, geographical wonder that is known as Tuvalu.
A country made up of coral islands barely popping out of the waters of the Pacific ocean, rising seas threaten its very existence, earning it some recent attention.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Crops are wilting, schools have shut their bathrooms and government officials are bathing in lagoons because of a severe sh...
As Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, "Above all, the prophets remind us of the moral state of a people: Few are guilty, but all are responsible."
Recently created countries remind us that there are no special requirements in terms of physical size, population or economic strength in order to become an independent country.
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
A year ago, it seemed possible--likely, even--that President Barack Obama would sweep into the internation...
This Saturday night at 8.30pm local time, the national government of Tuvalu will switch off power to the low-lying island nation, as one of the first ...
We're two days away from President Obama's first State of the Union address. I personally wait with bated breath. The President threw some punches l...
Sometimes as we go about our daily lives, climate change can seem abstract, and not something we think we are experiencing on a daily basis. However, ...
This is the Tuvalu Christian Church, the heart of a migrant community from what may be the first country to be rendered unlivable by global warming....
Special U.S. Envoy on Climate Change Todd Stern yesterday arrived at the United Nations Foundation meeting on Climate Change, a big jet-lagged, and we...
Much of the activity at the climate change conference in Copenhagen is kabuki theater with lots of activity, but real power concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy countries who would rather push decisions off to another day.
Huffington Post is holding a contest to send a citizen journalist to Copenhagen as part of its Hopenhagen platform. This contest will provide a unique...
Small island nations have much at stake at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
The Maldives, along with other islands...
Tuvalu wants to ensure that global temperatures won't rise by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. You can see why: if it does, their island could disappear beneath the sea forever.
There is a growing group of people in our world who are in a legal limbo: environmental refugees. And this problem is only going to get bigger as time goes on.
After years of climate change denial, a consortium of energy industry giants led by ExxonMobil and Massey Energy are launching a global campaign to provide island nations with equipment to combat rising sea levels.