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GREEN INC. COLUMN; A New Focus on Ocean Conservation
NEW YORK -- Over the past weekend, President Barack Obama took a break from the heat -- literal and political -- to take his family on a whirlwind tour of two national parks in the western United States. Mr. Obama used his trip to Grand Canyon and Yellowstone to highlight the importance of parks to Americas heritage. (He was heard to pronounce the - By KATE GALBRAITH
KIRIBATI travel guide - Wikitravel
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KIRIBATI - U.S. Department of State
Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, foreign relations of Kiribati.
Fiji May Get Influx of New Citizens as Neighbor Islands Sink
The population of Fiji may get a huge bump this year: The Telegraph is reporting that the low-lying Pacific nation of Kiribati is negotiating to buy land in Fiji so it can relocate approximately 113,000 islanders under threat from rising sea levels.
Janes KIRIBATI Home Page
MAURI ! This Web site has been developed by an I-Kiribati (Kiribati person) for the people of Kiribati, friends of Kiribati and as an aid to visitors who are ...
Republic of KIRIBATI - CIA - The World Factbook
Feb 23, 2012 ... Features map and brief descriptions of the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and ...
KIRIBATI eyeing land in Fiji as sea levels rise
The central Pacific Islands of Kiribati are planning to buy land in Fiji in case rising sea levels make the country unliveable. Kiribati president Anote Tong has confirmed to Fiji TV that a local land agent has identified 1500-2000 hectares of freehold ...
KIRIBATI Global Warming Fears: Entire Nation May Move To Fiji
Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual backup plan: moving the populace to Fiji. Kiribati President Anote Tong told The Associated Press ...
Entire nation of KIRIBATI to be relocated due to rising sea level threat
The low-lying Pacific nation of Kiribati is negotiating to buy land in Fiji so it can relocate islanders under threat from rising sea levels. In what could be the worlds first climate-induced migration of modern times, Kiribati President Anote Tong said ...
"The words of the prophets
Lower polar ice levels = Higher sea levels. As Anote Tong, the President of Kiribati, states in the video below, dealing with climate change is “the greatest moral challenge of humanity in this century, if not ever.” “The Minister for ...
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Samoa Sacrifices a Day for Its Future
The Pacific island nation of Samoa and its even tinier neighbor Tokelau are skipping Friday this week, jumping westward in time across the international date line and into the shifting economic balance of the 21st century. The time change, officially decided in June, is meant to align Samoa with its Asian trading partners; it moves the islands - By SETH MYDANS
Nation of KIRIBATI considers relocation | FP Passport
Some of Kiribati's 32 flat coral atolls, which straddle the equator over 3.5 million square kilometres of ocean, are already disappearing. The total land area is 811 square kilometres and the average elevation is less than two ...
KIRIBATIs hunt for land
THE people of Kiribati are looking at relocating as a worst case scenario because their islands are increasingly being affected by the rising sea level. President Anote Tong made the comment on Wednesday, saying he was seriously considering talks with ...
KIRIBATI | Water is Rising
Introduction. The Republic of Kiribati (pronounced kirr-i-bas) is made up of thirty-two atolls and one raised coral island. Located across an expanse of 1,351,000 ...
KIRIBATI tries to buy Fiji land as rising sea threatens residents
The Pacific nation of Kiribati is negotiating to buy land in Fiji so it can relocate islanders under threat from rising sea levels, in what could be the first climate-induced relocation of a country. Anote Tong, the Kiribati president, said he was in talks ...
KIRIBATI: Definition from Answers.com
Kiribati An island country of the west-central Pacific Ocean near the equator. It includes the former Gilbert Islands, Banaba (Ocean Island), and the
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KIRIBATI - U.S. Department of State
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A Ferocious Gift Lures Anglers To Christmas Island
As a non-fish-eater, I was taken aback when Peter Kairaoi, the lead guide for Christmas Island Outfitters, took a healthy bite from a dead and rather pungent milkfish he was shredding and tossing into the water for chum. But my gag reflex was pre-empted by a burst of adrenaline as Kairaoi interrupted his sashimi snack to yell, Trevally! A large - By CHRIS SANTELLA
STATES SECRETS| DAY 2; Cables Depict Coaxing By U.S. in Bid to Clear Guantánamos Prison
WASHINGTON -- Last year, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia proposed an unorthodox way to return Guantánamo Bay prisoners to a chaotic country like Yemen without fear that they would disappear and join a terrorist group. The king told a top White House aide, John O. Brennan, that the United States should implant an electronic chip in each detainee to - Article in series States Secrets examines American diplomatic cables as window on relations with rest of the world in age of war and terrorism; hundreds of secret State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to news organizations reveal painstaking efforts by United States to safely reduce population of Guanatanamo Bay prison in Cuba so that it could be closed; show that US sought out countries that were not only willing to take in former prisoners but also could be trusted to keep them under close watch; American officials then haggled with foreign counterparts in effort to resettle detainees who could not be repatriated for fear of mistreatment; Pres Obama, who vowed to close prison within one year of taking office, has winnowed population down to 174 from 240, but has missed his deadline; photos; charts (L) - By CHARLIE SAVAGE and ANDREW W. LEHREN; Charlie Savage reported from Washington, and Andrew W. Lehren from New York.
KIRIBATI Moving Entire Population to Avoid Rising Seas : TreeHugger
"This is the last resort; there is no way out of this one": President Anote Tong.
KIRIBATI Travel Information and Travel Guide - Lonely Planet
Mar 2, 2009 ... Kiribati tourism and travel information including facts, maps, history, culture, transport and weather in Kiribati. Find popular places to visit in ...
Islanders Fearing Climate Change Press a U.N. Debate
With their boundless vistas of turquoise water framed by swaying coconut palms, the Carteret Islands northeast of the Papua New Guinea mainland might seem the idyllic spot to be a castaway. But sea levels have risen so much that during the annual king tide season, November to March, the roiling ocean blocks the view from one island to the next, and - By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
KIRIBATI buys land in Fiji to save citizens from sea-level rise (Wired UK)
The tiny Pacific island nation of Kiribati is in talks to buy land from Fiji where its citizens can move to when climate-change-induced sea level rise inundates their homes.
OBSERVATORY; Predators Gone, Small Fish Get Bolder
Little fish are cautious and timid around big, hungry fish, and rightly so. But when populations of predators like tuna and shark shrink because of human fishing, small prey are more adventurous, according to a coming study in The American Naturalist. They took bigger excursions to feed, or to go to find mates, said Elizabeth Madin, the studys - By SINDYA N. BHANOO
Entire Pacific Nation Might Move to Fiji
(Newser) – The Pacific archipelago of Kiribati is so worried about rising water levels that the government might just move everyone to Fiji, the AP reports. The presidents Cabinet has approved a plan to buy 6,000 acres on Fijis main island ...
KIRIBATI cautioned against resettlement plans
Dr Katerina Teiawa from the Australian National University is responding to reports that the Kiribati government may buy land in Fiji to resettle its people should their homes be inundated with rising sea levels. Dr Teiawa says any such resettlement should ...
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Kiribati is an island group in Micronesia straddling the equator and, until 1995, the International Date Line. Kiribatis 33 atolls, with a total area of only 811 ...
KIRIBATI - U.S. Department of State
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South Pacific small island states to link marine resources
To counter these threats, Kiribati is positioning itself as a pioneer of ocean sustainability and a model for the "Blue Economy". Having already created a vast nature reserve around the Pheonix Islands - which is now Unescos biggest natural ...
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KIRIBATI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kiribati officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. The permanent population is just over 100000 (2011), ...
BBC News - KIRIBATI country profile
Dec 14, 2011 ... Provides overview, key facts and events, timelines and leader profiles along with current news.
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Visit KIRIBATI
Today, the former Gilbert Islands, which became independent Kiribati in 1979, has launched a campaign to attract more tourists – especially from Australia – than last year’s 5,000 or so. The target is at least 8,000 by 2014. Recently, Kiribati’s ...
What makes Russia stake on tiny little-known states?
Has Kiribati recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia? The information to this regard was provided to Radio Australia on January 30 by Stephen Hodli, a foreign policy expert from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. According to him, in 2011, the Georgian ...
Air Force Orion Locates Missing Boat
A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P3 Orion successfully located a missing 15ft vessel in the Kiribati region yesterday One man was onboard the overdue vessel, which was last seen west of Banaba Island, within the local fishing ground. When located ...
KIRIBATI - Welcome to Travel.State.Gov
COUNTRY DESCRIPTION: The Republic of Kiribati (pronounced kir-ree-bas) is an island group in the Western Pacific Ocean. It consists of an archipelago ...
Pacific island nation of KIRIBATI may move entire population to Fiji because of climate change
Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual backup plan: moving the populace to Fiji. Kiribati President Anote Tong told The Associated Press on Friday that his ...
Entire nation of KIRIBATI has to move to avoid rising seas | Grist
Some of Kiribati's 32 coral atolls have already started to disappear beneath the waves. President Anote Tong and his countrymen fear that continued sea level rise will wipe their civilization out entirely unless they relocate to ...
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; Life After Land
Lund, Sweden RISING sea levels could threaten the existence of small island states such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and the Maldives. If the international community cannot or will not slow global warming, the least it can do is help those states prepare for life after land by recognizing a new category of state -- the - Op-Ed article by international law professor Rosemary Rayfuse argues that island nations that sink as the sea levels continue to rise should be able to retain their sovereignity; urges international community to affirm that it will continue to recognize these states even when they are underwater (M) - Rosemary Rayfuse teaches international law at the University of New South Wales in Australia and Lund University in Sweden. - By ROSEMARY RAYFUSE
KIRIBATI - New World Encyclopedia
Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. The countrys 33 atolls are scattered over 1,351,000 ...
World News - As sea levels rise, KIRIBATI eyes 6000 acres in Fiji as ...
Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual backup plan: moving the populace to Fiji. Kiribati President Anote Tong told The Associated Press ...
Wanted: A New Home for My Country
One recent evening at the presidential palace in Malé, the capital of the Maldives, around 100 people showed up to watch a movie. Rows of overstuffed chairs in a gaudy combination of stripes and paisleys faced a projection screen hanging on the front wall of what seemed like a grand ballroom. At the back of the hall, journalists erected camera and - Nicholas Schmidles book To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan has just been published. A fellow at the New America Foundation, he last wrote for the magazine about al Qaeda in Mauritania. - By NICHOLAS SCHMIDLE
Island paradise sinking quickly
The Pacific nation of Kiribati is negotiating to buy land in Fiji so it can relocate islanders under threat from rising sea levels, in what could be the first climateinduced relocation of a country. Anote Tong, the Kiribati president ...
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; On Nauru, a Sinking Feeling
Yaren, Nauru I FORGIVE you if you have never heard of my country. At just 8 square miles, about a third of the size of Manhattan, and located in the southern Pacific Ocean, Nauru appears as merely a pinpoint on most maps -- if it is not missing entirely in a vast expanse of blue. But make no mistake; we are a sovereign nation, with our own - Op-Ed article by Marcus Stephen, president of tiny South Pacific country Nauru, offers cautionary tale of how global warming has stripped the country of its ecological resources; urges United Nations Security Council to recognize climate change as threat to international peace and security; drawing (M) - Marcus Stephen is the president of Nauru. - By MARCUS STEPHEN
KIRIBATI Travel Information and Travel Guide - Lonely Planet
Curving its way above and below the equator, the Republic of Kiribati (pronounced Kiri-bas) encompasses the Gilbert, Phoenix and Line Islands , and was known under ...
KIRIBATI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. The permanent population is just over 100,000 (2011 ...
KIRIBATI: Maps, History, Geography, Government, Culture, Facts ...
Information on Kiribati — geography, history, politics, government, economy, population statistics, culture, religion, languages, largest cities, as well as a map ...
Island nation of KIRIBATI plans mass relocation due to climate change ...
Kiribati President Anote Tong said that they were specifically eyeing land on the neighboring nation's second largest island, Vanua Levu, according to published reports. Tong added that the mass migration was “our last ...
Bush Leaves Small Island States to Sink
"I never thought I would see this on my island." On neighboring Kiribati, the effects of global warming are scarier. Kiribati (pronounced Kiri-bas) is just one of the worlds low-lying island states and atolls in danger of being swallowed up by the rising ...
Big Coal and Big Oil Wipe KIRIBATI off the Face of the Map | Informed ...
They are the ones responsible for the Kiribati migration, and if there were any justice, the residents would be allowed to sue the major petroleum, coal and gas corporations for compensation. The most conservative estimates ...
STATES SECRETS; Leaked Cables Offer a Raw Look Inside U.S. Diplomacy
WASHINGTON -- A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at back-room bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats. Some of the cables, made available to The - Trove of quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from past three years, provides unprecedented look at back-room bargaining by embassies, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of various threats; material was obtained by Wikileaks, organization devoted to revealing secret documents, and first installment of archive, 220 cables, has been posted on its Web site, with some redactions to protect diplomatic sources; some of the cables, made available to several news organizations, were written as recently as late Feb 2010, revealing Obama administrations exchanges over crises and conflicts; disclosure of cables is sending shudders through diplomatic establishment, and could strain relations with some countries, influencing international affairs in ways that are impossible to predict; photos; excerpts of text from select dispatches (L) - By SCOTT SHANE and ANDREW W. LEHREN; Scott Shane reported from Washington, and Andrew W. Lehren from New York. Reporting was contributed by Jo Becker, C. J. Chivers and James Glanz from New York; Eric Lichtblau, Michael R. Gordon, David E. Sanger, Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt and Ginger Thompson from Washington; and Jane Perlez from Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Im considering this too!Pacific nation may move entire population to Fiji http://t.co/VwVB4sr1 From: JonKnott1 - Source: USA TODAY for iPhone
Climate Leapfrog? Kiribati Eyes Jump to Fiji : Discovery News http://t.co/Bapl9uOk From: SteveAnnap - Source: Tweet Button
RT @ConservationOrg: The entire nation of Kiribati may relocate thanks to rising seas: http://t.co/63c6xoZJ #climate From: TLC4BC - Source: HootSuite
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http://t.co/sSqFiMFM Insólito! Kiribati necesita comprar una isla en el Pacífico porque la suya se hunde debido al cambio climático! O-O From: ahoratocaviajar - Source: web
Entire country moving over rising sea levels: http://t.co/85MG9OZ1 From: Kalendaries - Source: web
RT @Extinctionp: Plan lauched to save residents of Pacific Island Kiribati as it slips below the ocean: http://t.co/9NBLdIA6 From: SarahLaycock25 - Source: web
As sea levels rise, #Kiribati eyes 6,000 acres in #Fiji as new home for 103,000 islanders http://t.co/P6BVlngw via @msnbc_world From: nuevaondacuba - Source: Tweet Button
Entire Pacific nation could one day move to Fiji http://t.co/V1lIbwOL From: gshwaga - Source: CTV News iPhone
RT @godoyemiliano: Para quien no sepa a que puede llegar el calentamiento global, un país entero se muda! http://t.co/RC2Gber5 From: danbv - Source: Twitter for Mac
RT @LaVanguardia: Kiribati necesita tierra de Fiji porque se lo está tragando el mar http://t.co/CMG6NOYs From: martamonedero - Source: TweetDeck
Climate Leapfrog? Kiribati Eyes Jump to Fiji : Discovery News http://t.co/elI2SC8U From: marshallapplewh - Source: Tweet Button
Islands Entire Population May Move http://t.co/nWhEVMkZ via @huffingtonpost From: mehnar - Source: The Huffington Post
RT @planet3org: As sea levels rise, Kiribati eyes 6,000 acres in Fiji as new home for 103,000 islanders http://t.co/mFOJqSmE From: softgrasswalker - Source: dlvr.it