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Kiribati
Video Of The Day: Kiribati Sinking
"A Sinking Nation" from NPR on Vimeo.
Kiribati (pronounced kirr-i-bas) is an island nation spread across a chunk of the Pacific Ocean as big as Alaska two times over. But for all of the room Kiribati covers in distance, it accumulates virtually no space vertically. ...
Search For Amelia Earhart Turns Up Few Clues
A much vaunted and highly publicized search for the remains of Amelia Earhart has apparently turned up little in the way of new evidence to help solve the puzzle of the famous aviator's ultimate fate. A team of researchers, armed with an array of high-tech gear, spent the ...Search For Amelia Earhart Begins In South Pacific
In the beginning of June we told you about new research that seemed to indicate that famous aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan not only survived a crash in the South Pacific back in 1937, but also made numerous attempts to radio for help. Armed with those ...One in five vertebrates face extinction
The bad news: One in five vertebrates could go extinct within our lifetime, and the number may rise even higher than that.
The good news: It would be a lot worse if it weren't for conservation efforts.
That's the verdict of a global study of 25,000 threatened ...UNESCO ponders new World Heritage sites
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, better known as UNESCO, has announced that it will consider expanding their list of World Heritage Sites when the organization meets in Brazil in a few weeks time. The current list consists of 890 places ...Kiribati: A Disappearing Nation?
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 ...Word for the Travel Wise (06/27/06)
With half the land mass of Kiribati, tourists to the area are bound to visit the largest coral atoll in the world, Kiritimati (Christmas) Island during their Pacific island escape. Think 100 lakes or ponds sprinkled throughout the four village interior of the atoll. If I had ...Giant marine reserve created in the South Pacific
From National Geographic
News: The Republic of Kiribati, a tiny country in the South Pacific, has just designated 73,800 square miles
of Pacific atolls, coral reefs and deep ocean as one of the world's largest marine reserves. This region, called
the Phoenix ...Book Review: Sex Lives of Cannibals
Occasionally, we here at Gadling will do wee little book reviews for titles that strike our fancy. Nothing too grandiose, just a friendly recommendation when we find titles we like. There are quite a few excellent titles out there right now from ranging from hard core ...
