The company at the vanguard of plans to mine deep sea metals used in electric vehicle batteries has surrendered a third of ...

Like all politicians, Tong has critics, who suggest that some of his more radical schemes, like building a huge floating island to house Kiribati residents, were simply “attention-grabbing ...

Beijing has been ramping up efforts to court Pacific nations sitting on lucrative seafloor deposits of cobalt, nickel and ...

While much of the world eagerly awaits 2025, the island nation of Kiribati has already embraced the New Year, becoming the first to step into January 1, 2025. Located in the central Pacific Ocean ...

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 view of mangrove shoots planted by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and others on Tarawa, an atoll in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati, on September 4, 2011. (Eskinder Debebe/ United Nations Photo ...

This story appears in the November 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was the time called itingaaro, the dawn twilight, when the island was just waking up and the roosters were vying ...

WELLINGTON--New Zealand is reconsidering all development funding to the aid-dependent island nation of Kiribati, following a diplomatic snub from the island nation’s leader, government ...