After we reported on the news that the tiny, low-lying Pacific nation of Kiribati is buying up land on Fiji to protect its population from climate-change-induced sea level rise, photographer Ciril ...

TARAWA, Kiribati — “Garlands of the gods” is how Kiribati poet Teweiariki Teaero describes the atolls of his homeland. And from the air, that is how they look, with a smoke ring of clouds ...

Kiribati, pronounced KEE-ree-bas and known officially as the Republic of Kiribati, is located in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania and made up of 33 islands, only 20 of which are inhabited.

The images of flooded homes, taro pits and maneabas (community meeting huts) do provide a window into Kiribati's possible future. But these ubiquitous pictures are only part of the story Kiribati ...

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Getty Images Artificial islands or coastal fortification could protect the Republic of Kiribati from further land loss (Credit: Getty Images) Kiritimati has a dark past of British colonialism and ...

Kiribati President Taneti Maamau, who has led the Pacific Island nation to build closer ties with China in recent years, secured his third term in office on Saturday. He defeated two other ...

The 33 atolls that make up Kiribati - the former Gilbert Islands - occupy a vast area in the equatorial Pacific - nearly 4,000km from east to west and more than 2,000km from north to south.