This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed on Mar 26, 2025.

YONAGUNI, a tiny island on Japan’s western frontier, has no chain convenience stores. Nature lovers can dive with hammerhead ...

A rower on a 7,500-mile solo trip across the Pacific Ocean had to be ... was “fatigued” while stuck in the rough waters of the Coral Sea, 460 miles off the coast of Mackay, Queensland ...

The exercises were directly under the flight path of one of the busiest routes across the Tasman, a peaceful body of water far from ... of PLA forces in the South Pacific. After the live-fire ...

Wild pictures have captured the moment a rower on a daring 12,000km solo venture was rescued from the rough seas ... the turbulent waters after spending two nights adrift off the coast.

This month, one soloist has crossed into the Indian Ocean, another has made a pitstop in French Polynesia, and a canoeist has crossed the Atlantic.

Just try visiting the San Juan Islands without provoking daydreams of running away to live among the orcas and farmstands.

For an adventure in South ... islands — and want to tick the Panama Canal off your must-see list — Viking’s new 20-day Panama Canal & the Americas itinerary visits six countries and features a full ...

Australia may have to give up on the idea of a strategic equilibrium and settle for something messier and less grand.

There are 8000 shipwrecks off Australia alone, many more still to be found. Yet stunning discoveries still happen. What does ...

Aurimas Mockus ran into trouble about 740 kilometres east of Mackay while attempting a 12,000 kilometre Pacific ... the Cook Islands, spent 265 days at sea before he was rescued off Vanuatu ...

passed between Okinawa and Miyako Island, reached the Philippine Sea and flew south of Okinawa to the waters off the island of Amami Oshima, then turned around and flew over the waters between ...