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 ...
A canary in the climate change coal mine: the island nation of Kiribati is disappearing into the sea
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 ...
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 ...
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