A video released by the government this week explains how phosphate mining on the island's central plateau has scarred the landscape leaving hard rock pinnacles that can't be built on or farmed.
As rising sea levels force Nauru's population to retreat to higher ground in the interior, the chairman of the Nauru Rehabilitation Corporation, Peter Jacob, says the country's future depends on remediating the land.
"That needs to leveled either through demolishing those rocks to make it smooth, or back filling with soil, or a combination of both."
