Nearly half the citizens of the tiny Pacific Island nation have already applied in a lottery for Australian visas amid an ...

More than a third of the population of Tuvalu has applied to move to Australia, under a landmark visa scheme designed to help people escape rising sea levels.

Tuvalu is one of the smallest countries in the world, its nine tiny islands covering just 10 square miles combined. Not many people travel there. Just over 3,000 tourists visited the island in ...

Villages cling to a strip of land as narrow as 20 metres in parts of Funafuti, the main atoll of Tuvalu in the Pacific Ocean, September 6, 2024. REUTERS/Kirsty Needham.