The Vanishing Islands That Didn’t Vanish

Low-lying tropical island nations were expected to be early victims of rising seas. But research in the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean, tells a surprising story.

Video by Raymond Zhong, Karen Hanley, Jason Gulley and Alexandra Ostasiewicz

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