Raymond Zhong traveled to the Maldives with photographer Jason Gulley to understand a counter-intuitive story he’d heard: As sea levels have risen in the past two decades, some atolls are growing, instead of receding. That ran counter to the assumption that as the planet warmed, the oceans would swallow the world’s low-lying atoll nations. But through elegant writing, vivid photography and graphics, Ray, Jason and graphics editor Jonathan Corum presented a surprising twist.
