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Nature 440, 734-736 (6 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/440734a; Published online 5 April 2006

Climate science: A sinking feeling

Samir S. Patel1

  1. Samir S. Patel is a freelance science journalist and photographer based in New York City
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The floods are getting worse in Tuvalu. As scientists argue over climate change and struggle to measure rising seas, Samir S. Patel meets the locals of this tiny island nation.

On a Friday afternoon in late January, the phone rings in the Filamona Guest House, one of the few places to stay in the Pacific archipelago of Tuvalu. Hilia Vavae, the director of the Meteorological Office, sounds excited in her modest, laid-back way.

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