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Environment - current issues Nauru, in 34 editions.

The entry for Nauru published Environment - current issues in 34 editions of 36, from 1990 to 2024. The text changed in 11 editions. Each is shown as published. Environment - current issues in every entry.

editions changed the text
11
the first edition with it
1990
the latest edition with it
2024

Published as “Environment” (1990 to 1996), “Environment - current issues” (1997 to 2024), “Environment-current issues” (1998) and “Environment--current issues” (1999).

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2024 edition

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The same text in 7 editions, 2018 to 2024.

  • limited natural freshwater resources, roof storage tanks that collect rainwater and desalination plants provide water;
  • a century of intensive phosphate mining beginning in 1906 left the central 90% of Nauru a wasteland;
  • cadmium residue, phosphate dust, and other contaminants have caused air and water pollution with negative impacts on health;
  • climate change has brought on rising sea levels and inland water shortages

limited natural freshwater resources, roof storage tanks that collect rainwater but mostly dependent on a single, aging and desalination plant; plants provide water; a century of intensive phosphate mining beginning in 1906 - mainly by a UK, Australia, and NZ consortium - left the central 90% of Nauru a wasteland wasteland; cadmium residue, phosphate dust, and threatens limited remaining land resources other contaminants have caused air and water pollution with negative impacts on health; climate change has brought on rising sea levels and inland water shortages

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Central Intelligence Agency. “Nauru: Environment - current issues.” The World Factbook, 1990–2024 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/nauru/environment-current-issues.

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