Storyville

Before the Flood: Tuvalu (2005x14)

Air date: Mar 09, 2005

By selling the internet domain name .tv for$50 million, the previously impoverished Pacific island nation of Tuvalu landed a massive dot-com windfall. Nature, however, has dealt its citizens a cruel hand - rising sea levels caused by global warming. Can anything be done to stem the tide? Storyville investigates.