1.   The phosphate is running out, leaving Nauru -- once named Pleasant Island by European explorers -- a bleak moonscape of bleached coral pinnacles.

2.   The phosphate is running out, leaving Nauru, once named by European explorers Pleasant Island, a bleak moonscape of bleached coral pinnacles.

3.   The resource is almost depleted however, leaving Nauru a bleak moonscape of bleached coral pinnacles.

4.   The resource is almost depleted, leaving Nauru a bleak moonscape of bleached coral pinnacles.

5.   Its once enormous wealth came from phosphate-rich topsoils which have been strip-mined and exported, leaving Nauru a moonscape of bleached white coral pinnacles.

6.   Now the phosphate is running out, leaving Nauru, once named by European explorers Pleasant Island, a bleak moonscape of bleached coral pinnacles.