Kiribati News

In October I was chosen as a representative of Wollongong's Catholic Education Office as part of a delegation for the Pacific Calling Partnership.

A Kiribati leader who fears her country will be lost to rising sea says New Zealand and Australia are not doing enough to help the climate change refugees of Kiribati.

Declaring "it's a matter of survival," one of the world's tiniest nations, speaking for imperiled islands everywhere, took on global industrial and oil powers Wednesday at the U.N. climate conference _ and lost.

The eyes of the world turn to the World leaders over the next two weeks as they converge in Copenhagen, Denmark where the much debated and anticipated Climate Change conference gets underway today.

If most people were asked to point where Kiribati is on the world map, they would be in trouble.

Tokelau's atolls are vulnerable to cyclones and storms that are becoming more severe due to climate change.

The 17,000 people visiting Denmark for global talks on reducing greenhouse gases will release as much carbon dioxide during the two-week event as about 200,000 U.S. passenger cars do in the period.

Tikoruru and Uriana in Manukau sitting cross-legged in their ordinary clothes with a bowl of coconut as their snack.

For tiny island states in the Pacific, some with their highest points no more than a few metres above sea level, climate change is the greatest challenge of our time.

Villagers on the island of Abaiang stand in the sea where their homes used to be.

With two stunning cakes for one route, it is a tough choice not to make them cakes of the week, but anna.aero compensates by awarding airBaltic's service from Riga via Tallinn to Lappeenranta in South Karelia, Finland the even more prestigious Route of the Week recognition.

President of Kiribati Anote Tong meets Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed at the President's Office on Sunday The Maldives, which is one of the nations most vulnerable to rising sea levels, yesterday asked fellow endangered states to go carbon neutral and lead a drive to reduce global warming.

The Indian Government has ruled that the former S.S. Independence may not be beached at Alang for scrapping.

Staff Reporter Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed called on fellow vulnerable, developing countries to embrace a carbon neutral future, during his inaugural address to the Climate Vulnerable Forum, which is meeting in the Maldives on Monday and Tuesday.

The new movie "Amelia" will resurrect interest in Amelia Earhart and her mysterious disappearance.

Actions and events are planned in every Pacific Island nation for the 350 International Day of Climate Action today, Oct.

In recent years, a cultural renaissance has taken shape on island reviving interests among local teens to rediscover the unique traditions of the Mariana Islands.

Fifty-one heads or their representatives will assemble at The Hyatt for the talks.

Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 9:55 am Press Release: Pacific Tsunami Warning Center THIS BULLETIN APPLIES TO AREAS WITHIN AND BORDERING THE PACIFIC OCEAN AND ADJACENT SEAS...EXCEPT ALASKA...BRITISH COLUMBIA... WASHINGTON...OREGON AND CALIFORNIA.

The Republic of Kiribati - whose 33 tiny, low-lying islands are sprinkled across an enormous swath of the Central Pacific - will be the first country to completely disappear under the waters of global warming, according to climate change experts.