Recreating islands in the lab (IMAGE)

University of Plymouth

Recreating islands in the lab

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To conduct their study scientists created a scale model of Fatato Island, part of the Funafuti Atoll in Tuvalu, and subjected it to a series of experiments designed to simulate predicted sea level rises

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University of Plymouth

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