claim: “The most famous of these studies, published in 2010 by Paul Kench and Arthur Webb of the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission in Fiji, showed that of 27 Pacific islands, 14% lost area.
evidences.evidence_id: Funamanu:5
evidences.article: Funamanu
evidences.evidence: Paul Kench at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and Arthur Webb at the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission in Fiji released a study in 2010 on the dynamic response of reef islands to sea level rise in the central Pacific.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Geography of Tuvalu:99
evidences.article: Geography of Tuvalu
evidences.evidence: Tuvalu was mentioned in the study, and Webb and Kench found that seven islands in one of its nine atolls have spread by more than 3 per cent on average since the 1950s.
evidences.votes: REFUTES REFUTES
evidences.evidence_id: Kiribati:188
evidences.article: Kiribati
evidences.evidence: Paul Kench at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and Arthur Webb at the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission in Fiji released a study in 2010 on the dynamic response of atolls and reef islands in the central Pacific.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Kiribati:189
evidences.article: Kiribati
evidences.evidence: Kiribati was mentioned in the study, and Webb and Kench found that the three major urbanised islands in Kiribati—Betio, Bairiki and Nanikai—increased by 30% (36 hectares), 16.3% (5.8 hectares) and 12.5% (0.8 hectares), respectively.
evidences.votes: REFUTES REFUTES
evidences.evidence_id: Tuvalu:473
evidences.article: Tuvalu
evidences.evidence: A study published in 2018 estimated the change in land area of Tuvalu's nine atolls and 101 reef islands between 1971 and 2014, indicating that 75% of the islands had grown in area, with an overall increase of more than 2%.
evidences.votes: REFUTES REFUTES