Funafuti atoll
The UN atlas of the oceans. The Ocean Environment section contains lots of information and photos about oceans
Animation from NOAA showing the dynamic process of how a coral atoll forms.
Sea level rise
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climatic Change) Climate change report 2001; synthesis in Q & A format. Includes questions about sea level rise and its connection with global climatic change
What causes the sea level rise? A slide from the IPCC.
About Tuvalu
Goodbye Tuvalu! Will Tuvalu be the first nation in the world to really feel the effects of the climate-change?
A sinking feeling. Paper on Nature about Tuvalus destiny.
Coral reef monitoring
The Global Coral reef Monitoring Network (GCMN)
Geographic Information System of world coral reefs (source: reefbase.org), including ecological observations of major coral diseases
The Millennium coral reefs Landsat archive.
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