{"id":48941,"date":"2022-09-30T02:30:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/29\/could-a-digital-twin-of-tuvalu-preserve-the-island-nation-before-its-lost-to-the-collapsing-climate"},"modified":"2022-09-30T02:30:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:30:17","slug":"could-a-digital-twin-of-tuvalu-preserve-the-island-nation-before-its-lost-to-the-collapsing-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48941","title":{"rendered":"Could a digital twin of Tuvalu preserve the island nation before it\u2019s lost to the collapsing climate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With rising seas expected to submerge the nation by 2100, official says \u2018we should always be able to remember Tuvalu as it is, before it disappears\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free news app<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/sep\/23\/morning-mail-newsletter-best-daily-news-email-guardian-australia-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning email briefing<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Tuvalu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/aug\/10\/east-antarctic-ice-sheet-in-our-hands-climate-action\">vanishes beneath rising seas<\/a>, its diaspora still want somewhere to call home \u2013 and that could be a virtual version of the tiny Pacific nation.<\/p>\n<p>Global heating is threatening to submerge Tuvalu by the end of the century, and its 12,000 inhabitants are considering the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/sep\/23\/morning-mail-newsletter-best-daily-news-email-guardian-australia-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/29\/could-a-digital-twin-of-tuvalu-preserve-the-island-nation-before-its-lost-to-the-collapsing-climate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With rising seas expected to submerge the nation by 2100, official says \u2018we should always be able to remember Tuvalu as it is, before it disappears\u2019Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastWhen Tuvalu vanishes beneath rising s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,388,2331,65,467,874,788,563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-oceans","category-pacific-islands","category-sea-level","category-tuvalu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48950,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48941\/revisions\/48950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}