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 ...

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 ...

Kiribati has gotten a lot of praise the last couple of years for efforts to protect its massive expanse of ocean. In 2008, the country officially delineated the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, or PIPA ...

Four days after kings tides hit the low-lying Pacific nation of Kiribati authorities say one of their biggest challenges is getting clean water to affected communities. The king tides caused ...

In the middle of the Pacific, straddling the equator and punching a hole in the International Date Line, lies one of the planet’s more enigmatic countries: Kiribati. It is a vibrant country, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. About 40 officials from around the world will fly to the tiny atoll nation of Kiribati next week to take a look at the immediate impact ...

The Republic of Kiribati, a small nation of islands and atolls in the central Pacific Ocean, is a tropical paradise that’s also believed to be at extreme risk of disappearing due to climate change. In ...

Today on Morning Edition, I reported on one of the ways the island nation of Kiribati is preparing for the possibility that sea level rise could render large parts of the country uninhabitable: A ...

Kiribati’s President Taneti Maamau, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Jan. 6, 2020. Credit: AP Photo/Mark ...

Biased media reports hyping up a potential security pact between China and Kiribati is unreasonable and with ulterior motives, Tinian Reiher, an honorable member of Kiribati parliament, told the ...

A China-backed plan to upgrade an airstrip on Kiribati is fuelling political divisions in the tiny Pacific Island nation, with opposition figures questioning Beijing’s intentions and the project’s ...

Taiwan and Kiribati severed ties on Friday after the tiny Pacific nation decided to switch diplomatic recognition to China, the second of the island’s allies to defect this week. “Kiribati today ...