Kiribati has confirmed its intention to rejoin the Pacific's peak political forum, finally ending a persistent and bitter leadership split. Kiribati President Taneti Maamau had said his country would ...

The low-lying Pacific island nation of Kiribati is one of the parts of the world most threatened by climate change and rising sea levels. Scientists say the islands could be uninhabitable within ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand is reconsidering all development funding to the aid-dependent island nation of ...

A police officer handles a ballot box as voters gather at a polling station during Kiribati's national elections. The remote Pacific Island nation of Kiribati headed to the polls on Wednesday in a ...

People in Kiribati have gone to the polls for the first round of voting in a national election expected to serve as a referendum on rising living costs and the government's stronger ties with China. A ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 26 January 2024 The 33 atolls that make up Kiribati - the former Gilbert Islands - occupy a vast area in the equatorial Pacific - nearly ...

Coconuts have gotten smaller. The well water tastes salty. Rain doesn’t come when it’s supposed to. Fish are fewer and farther out from the shore. When you ask people in Kiribati if they’re ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jill Goldenziel writes & consults on security, law, & business risk. Kiribati stunned its neighbors—and the world—by abruptly ...

Kiribati's coasts are being steadily eroded because of sand mining, the seas are polluted with sewage, litter is dumped anywhere, and the people live in over-crowded ramshackle conditions at risk of ...

Fifteen countries signed a declaration today in Tarawa, the capital of the tiny island nation of Kiribati, recognizing the increasingly dire situation faced by small island countries due to climate ...

Most coverage of Kiribati evokes a sense of the acute vulnerability of this nation: coconut palms with exposed roots clinging to eroded coastlines, angry waves crashing against sandbag seawalls, the ...

For millennia, the people of Kiribati have lived off the land, dwelling on their small islands located in the central Pacific Ocean. But over the last several decades, rising sea levels due largely to ...