Alertnet (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Source: Reuters CANBERRA, June 20 (Reuters) - With climate change threatening his tiny Pacific nation, Kiribati President Anote Tong on Friday asked Australia for help in the battle against rising seas that threaten ...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Kiribati President Anote Tong said yesterday that he knew the former head of the Immigration Service, Mary Anne Thompson, and that she was a woman of "good character". But he said they did not study together at the London School...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
The President of South Pacific nation Kiribati, Anote Tong, is urging help for his islands' people who face their low lowing homeland disappearing under rising seas caused by climate change.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
By Suchit Nair WELLINGTON/CHRISTCHURCH: World Environment Day may have been celebrated across the planet with some fanfare and lots of tree planting on Thursday but it was put in perspective by Anote Tong, president of the small Pacific Ocean nation of Kiribati comprising 32 atolls, when he issued a plaintive appeal to global leaders to save his country from disappearing from the face of the earth....
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
After years of fruitless appeals for decisive action on climate change, the tiny South Pacific nation of Kiribati has concluded that it is doomed. Yesterday its President, Anote Tong, used World Environment Day to request international help to evacuate his country before it disappears.
NWF View (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
The president of Kiribati said today his country may already be doomed by climate change. At international meetings on climate change this week, President Anote Tong listened in frustration while other countries argued that it would hurt their countries’ economic...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Kiribati's President, Anote Tong, says his country may already be doomed by global warming - and he wants New Zealand and Australia to consider the issue of environmental refugees. "We may already be at the point of no return,...
ENN: Top Stories (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
World Environment Day is an opportunity for a diverse spread of countries, companies and communities to look at their environmental problems and try to find some solutions. But for the tiny Pacific nation of Kiribati, the environmental outlook is so grim the President, Anote Tong, has issued an appeal for Australia and other countries for help.
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Today there is a doom and gloom article based on statements given at a press conference marking World Environment Day . The remarks were made by the president of the low-lying Pacific atoll nation of Kiribati. Kiribati likely doomed by climate change President Anote Tong said communities had already been resettled and crops destroyed by seawater in some parts of the country, made up of 33 coral atolls...
tbirdnow.mee.nu (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Timothy Birdnow Here is a piece from Yahoo News (courtesy of Matt Drudge) about the alleged effects of ``climate change`` on the islands of Kiribati. Anote Tong, president of the Pacific archipelago nation, is issuing hysterical warnings that Kiribati may be doomed by rising sea levels. According to Mr. Tong: "I am not a scientist but what I know is that things are happening we did not experience in...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Wellington - The leader of the Pacific island state of Kiribati said on Wednesday that he has to find new homes for his 100,000 people because global warming could make the country disappear under the sea in 50 to 60 years. Anote Tong, president of K...
Gadling (Free subscription) | 05/08/2007
Filed under: Stories , Oceania , Kiribati , Video Ever since I read J. Maarten Troost's hilarious book, The Sex Lives of Cannibals , I've wanted to visit the island nation in which the story takes place: Kiribati . It appears that there's not a whole lot to do there -- except go diving and savor a culture fairly different from my own -- but that's sort of the point. Kiribati -- a remote nation of...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 04/28/2007
Weir Tours Pacific Nation for Launch of "Key to the World" Series
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 02/26/2007
After Korean fishing boats were banned twice from docking there, On South Pacific island, Korean fishermen again looking to buy sex . Here's how the second ban came about: In 2005, the problematic behavior of Korean fishermen became so serious that Kiribati authorities decided to prohibit Korean ships from docking there. The decision came after the head of Kiribati's Roman Catholic Church urged the...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 02/16/2007
“International efforts to combat global warming will come too late to prevent the evacuation of Pacific islands sinking as a result of rising sea levels and severe weather, said Anote Tong, president of Kiribati. “We can't out-move the changes in the weather and the sea level rise,” Tong told Bloomberg News. “We have to consider [...]
