Tiny islands face change that is hard to believe in

Updated November 9 2012 - 4:20pm, first published November 26 2010 - 1:16pm
Faaui Siale, 60, has faith God won't allow another flood.
Faaui Siale, 60, has faith God won't allow another flood.
Tuvalu - rising sea leaves and frequent king tides are causing coastal erosion and salinating the groundwater, making it hard to grow crops.
Tuvalu - rising sea leaves and frequent king tides are causing coastal erosion and salinating the groundwater, making it hard to grow crops.
Reverend Tafue Lusama, a minister in the Tuvalu Christian Church.
Reverend Tafue Lusama, a minister in the Tuvalu Christian Church.
Vulnerable ... a boy and a piglet that had escaped on the Tuvaluan island of Funafuti, where residents say rising sea water threatens food production.
Vulnerable ... a boy and a piglet that had escaped on the Tuvaluan island of Funafuti, where residents say rising sea water threatens food production.

Faaui Siale is sitting in her open-walled home, at the northern end of Tuvalu's atoll capital, Funafuti. Three generations live here, side by side on a sliver of coral sand barely 50 metres wide.

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