The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu is facing an existential threat due to rising sea levels, caused by climate change. According to NASA, the sea level in Tuvalu has risen nearly 6 inches in the past 30 years and is expected to rise further in the coming decades, potentially inundating large parts of the country during high tides. At the current rate of global sea level rise, the entire country will be submerged in a matter of decades.
Rather than be erased by the rising waters, Tuvalu is attempting to become the “First Digital Nation,” by digitally recording its land, archiving its culture, and digitizing its government, so that Tuvalu can exist as a nation even after its land is no more.
We 
Early Monday morning, a 1,170km (730-mile) telecommunications cable in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany was severed, while a 218km internet link between Lithuania and Sweden’s Gotland Island stopped working on Sunday.
An interesting story from the 
In November 1878, the wooden schooner 
On the chart, it was marked as a shipwreck in the Pacific Ocean near the Solomon Islands, but when scientists and filmmakers from the 
Last Saturday morning at Pier 88 on the Hudson River, the US Navy commissioned its newest destroyer, 
In 1964, pop-artist Andy Warhol shocked the art world by making hundreds of replicas of supermarket cartons and presenting them as art. He painted screenprints of soup cans, then sculptures of packaging for Kellogg’s cornflakes and Heinz ketchup. Among the most notorious were his sculptures of 
A sad account that reinforces an old lesson, while also highlighting an unexpected risk of social media. 
The first American naval ship lost in World War II was not sunk in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. Over a month before, on October 31, 1941, the destroyer 
In August of last year, we bade a sad farewell to the 
The 
After being closed for five years for renovations, the 
Two hundred and nineteen years ago today, in 1805, the Royal Navy, commanded by 
At least seven people were killed yesterday when part of a ferry dock collapsed on Georgia’s Sapelo Island, where crowds had gathered for a 
Emirates Team New Zealand clinched match point in the 
In early August, Mikhail Pichugin, 46, set off in a small inflatable boat to watch whales in the stormy 
We are a few days late in wishing the US Navy a happy 249th birthday