One of Tarawa’s neighborhoods, Betio (pronounced ‘BEH-so’ – ‘ti’ makes an ‘s’ sound in Kiribati), has so many people crammed on to so small a piece of land, it’s more densely ...

Kiribati has already seen growing damage from storms and flooding. In 1999, two of the nation’s unpopulated islets, Tebua Tarawa and Abanuea, disappeared underwater entirely.

Families from Kiribati’s outer atolls are flocking to South Tarawa for jobs, education, and health care, swelling the population to more than 50,000. Newcomers are often forced to live in ...

It is a boom that threatens to overwhelm the tiny atoll of South Tarawa as quickly as the rising seas. Some 50,000 people, about half of Kiribati's total population, are already crammed onto a ...

If you are planning to travel to Tarawa or any other city in Kiribati, this airport locator will be a very useful tool. This page gives complete information about the Bonriki Airport along with the ...

But 2,000 miles to the west in South Tarawa, Kiribati’s narrow, six-square-mile capital island crowded with 50,000 people, the picture is much darker. Over the past half-century, ...

TARAWA, Kiribati -- On the beach at "Bloody Tarawa," where U.S. Marines died by the hundreds, the broken bottles, crushed boxes and plastic bags are piling up by the millions. Rotting under the ...

Dusk settles over Eita, a neighbourhood on Tarawa, Kiribati's main atoll, as inhabitants lift their potted plants from the ground to safety. They place them on tables, benches, any elevated ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Three overdue mariners, who were last seen on July 4, were rescued Monday in the area of Tarawa, Kiribati. The Coast Guard, Fiji Rescue Coordination Center responders, ...

Tarawa, Kiribati — Polls closed in the Pacific nation of Kiribati Wednesday, capping a campaign dominated by cost-of-living worries, rising sea levels and questions about the benefit of deeper ...