Pacific leaders watch Tuvalu reclamation effort ahead of U.N. climate meet

Representatives of 30 nations watched on Tuesday as white sand dredged from an atoll lagoon was used to reclaim land from the ocean in a fight by the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu to keep its main island from being lost to rising waves.A group of coral island clusters with about 10,000 inhabitants whose land is on average just 2 m (7 ft) above sea level, Tuvalu is one of the nations most vulnerable to climate change."You are standing on frontline soil," Foreign Minister Paulson Panapa told the leaders gathered ahead of pre-COP, a preparatory conference for the United Nations COP31 climate f…READ FULL ARTICLE