After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the ...

France and Indonesia’s top diplomats have inked a new maritime security project aiming “to ensure peace and safety” at sea in the Indo-Pacific region.

San Antonio's location, in a wide bay with no natural defenses, leaves it particularly vulnerable to storm surges, said ...

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.

A few weeks ago, commercial flights over the Tasman Sea — located between Australia and New Zealand — were forced to divert after they were warned by the ...

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.

After a legal battle spanning more than three years, New York’s top court on Thursday struck down a city law as unconstitutional that would’ve expanded the right to vote in ...

Scientists involved in coastal research at a Charleston laboratory are in the government’s crosshairs as President Donald Trump seeks to cut thousands of federal jobs.

Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day ...

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

But as South African filmmaker Rehad Desai (“Miners Shot Down”) warns in his timely new documentary “Capturing Water,” playing this week at the Joburg Film Festival, the city’s water ...

Literally a 30-second sentence added to your standard deductible talk and you are out of the room or off the phone. No biggie. If only. Like so many dictums from D.C., the IRA brings a plethora of ...