Kiribati Races to Make the World Cup -- Before the Country Disappears Beneath the Pacific

Kiribati races to make the World Cup -- before the country disappears beneath the Pacific

Kiribati wants to become a FIFA member and qualify for the World Cup, but rising sea levels mean it may not be able to host games for much longer.

Kiribati races to join FIFA as rising seas threaten islands

Eriati Reebo, president of the Kiribati Island Football Federation, is racing to make his country a full FIFA member before climate change threatens its existence. Kiribati, an archipelago of 32 atolls and islands in the central Pacific, faces a worst-case scenario of submersion by 2050, and the United Nations has warned it could be underwater […]