At the mercy of the tides From the air, Kiribati’s Tarawa atoll emerges from the Pacific as narrow strands of land that join to form a wispy V shape.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Tarawa Atoll in the Republic of Kiribati – a remote Pacific nation threatened by rising seas. The Republic of Kiribati is an […] ...

Kiribati is an island nation in the Pacific that's roughly halfway between Hawaii and French Polynesia. It's 119,000 people ...

Fifteen countries signed a declaration today in Tarawa, the capital of the tiny island nation of Kiribati, recognizing the increasingly dire situation faced by small island countries due to ...

Atoll sand is made of broken bits of coral and coralline algae and of the skeletons of mollusks and tiny creatures called ... But 2,000 miles to the west in South Tarawa, Kiribati’s narrow, ...

For more than three years, Leon Cooper has sought to pressure authorities into removing litter from Red Beach on the Pacific atoll called Tarawa -- site of one of the United States’ bloodiest ...

Tarawa was the site of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. Marine Corps history when Marines landed in Nov. 1943, the Battle of Tarawa was fought at Kiribati's former capital Betio on Tarawa Atoll.

Provides an overview of Kiribati, ... 1943 - Battle of Tarawa. The heavily-defended Tarawa Atoll sees some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific when US marines invade to drive out the Japanese.

A strategically important island nation. The bond between Kiribati — population 120,000 — and its near neighbor New Zealand, a country of 5 million people, might not appear the South Pacific's ...

Map locating the Tarawa Atoll in the Gibert Islands in the Pacific Ocean, east of Indonesia. The map also locates the Marshall and Mariana Islands, which are northwest of Kiribati. 10 miles ...

Richard Vogel. FILE - A man fishes on a bridge on Tarawa atoll, Kiribati, on March 30, 2004. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File) ...

Provides an overview of Kiribati, ... 1943 - Battle of Tarawa. The heavily-defended Tarawa Atoll sees some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific when US marines invade to drive out the Japanese.