HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A new exhibit, ‘Project Banaba,’ showcasing Banaba Island, opened today at the Bishop Museum. Banaba Island was destroyed by phosphate mining, forcing the residents to ...

Traditional owners from the tiny Pacific island of Banaba say they've been blindsided over an agreement to explore phosphate mining on the remote atoll. Environmental destruction still remains after ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. All across the tiny Pacific island of Banaba thousands of pinnacles of sun-bleached coral rise in jagged formations, mute reminders of ...

Project Banaba was curated by Katerina Teaiwa, pictured, and is exhibited at Bishop Museum. It opened this month and runs through Feb. 18. Teaiwa said watching film of the mining was traumatizing. The ...

Project Banaba curated by Katerina Teaiwa is on display at Bishop Museum. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser welcomes all opinions. Want your voice to be heard? Submit a letter to the editor. >> Write us: ...

Empty swimming pools and discarded movie projectors on the tiny island of Banaba are symbols of the exploitation that destroyed it, writes Belinda Cranston. A largely abandoned island, overgrown with ...

Minister for Lands and Mineral Resources Filimoni Vosarogo tells Banaban community: “This is your island, your home, your ...

On Oct. 28, 2013, Dr. Jay Garlitz flew from L.A. to Fiji, where he met up with a 19-member international team of amateur radio operators, or HAMs, who were traveling to the central Pacific island of ...

The mining of Banaba to produce phosphate fertiliser is the subject of the new exhibition at MTG Hawke's Bay Open to the public today is Project Banaba, an exhibition that tells the story of phosphate ...

Their ancestors were on opposing sides of a lucrative and devastating mining project that changed a Pacific island forever. And yet, their love bloomed. Ocean Island, or Banaba, is a pinprick in the ...