The world must dramatically curb the emission of the greenhouse gases that drive global warming. But protecting the right 30 ...

Analyzing the connection involved assessing the influence of humans on nearby reefs. One of the earliest inquiries Sandin and his Scripps colleagues made involved the Line Islands, 11 atolls in the ...

The South Pacific nation of Kiribati has been dealt an unfavourable hand in the global fight against climate change. It is literally losing ground as its 33 coral atolls and islands are being ...

A dead reef cannot sustain the islands it has built. What kind of world is this, where the sea consumes its own creation? Families from Kiribati’s outer atolls are flocking to South Tarawa for ...

The ferry was headed for the main island of Tarawa Though its 33 atolls and reef islands are spread across millions of square kilometres of ocean, Kiribati is a small community - almost everyone ...

This story appears in the January 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. The heavy iron anchor and chain tumbled noisily into the water. We lowered two red skiffs from our research vessel ...

Kiribati, part of the Line Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, is the first country to reel in the new year. Kiribati is ...