A man looks at the landscape of Nauru, which has been left barren ... Meanwhile, the complete destruction of the island's interior has severely limited Nauruans' ability to adapt in the face ...

Phosphate mining has left the interior landscape savagely scarred. And there's a perpetual fine powdered dust in the air produced by the island's phosphate-mining industry. But Nauru has a charm ...

The landscape ... Nauru today is at the highest level of vulnerability on the Environmental Vulnerability Index. The past destruction wrought by phosphate mining has rendered the island incapable ...

The government estimates that secondary deposits have a remaining life of about 30 years, but the island's landscape has been devastated by over a century of phosphate strip mining. Nauru has ...

Nauru was strip mined for phosphate from the early 1900s. For nearly a century, the landscape was gouged by miners, leaving the center of the island a near barren landscape of jagged rocks.