FUNAFUTI, Tuvalu (AP) — The rising sea is eating at the shores of low-slung Funafuti, a spit of coral and coconut palms in the remote Pacific. Unseen fingers of ocean even reach beneath the sands, surfacing inland in startling places, among nervous islanders.

"It used to be puddles. Now it's like lakes," said Hilia Vavae, local meteorologist...

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Informant: Geraldo Cienmarcos