Nauru, the world's third-smallest country, has a fascinating history and the past few years have been very crucial in its ...

We’ve already seen it happen in the Pacific, where once abundant phosphate resources on Nauru and Banaba Island have been depleted and are no longer viable. An environmental disaster in the ...

while its closest neighbour is Banaba, in Kiribati, 200 miles to the east. The island’s economy for decades was dominated by phosphate, which has been mined on Nauru since 1907. The phosphate ...