ON Dec. 26, 2004, the world witnessed what has become known as the Boxing Day or Indian Ocean Tsunami, a natural disaster of ...

The Chinese navy is gradually extending its operational reach beyond East Asia, the Pentagon said in a report.

At the bottom of the oceans and seas lie more than 8,500 shipwrecks from two world wars. These wrecks have been estimated to ...

The tsunami was the deadliest natural disaster in the 21st century and one of the deadliest in recorded history. Head of ...

There are likely hundreds of trillions of pieces of plastic floating around the world’s oceans - and one country has been named the worst polluter. Millions of tons of plastic end up in Earth ...

Some 6.7 billion people would die of starvation in the event of a nuclear war and its aftermath, a study by Nature Food has ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across ...

A view of the General Assembly Hall during the "Summit of the Future" at United Nations Headquarters in New York City, U.S., ...

For decades, shipwrecks from the two world wars have been degrading, inexorably increasing the chances of sudden releases of ...

Brazil, the world’s fifth largest country, is almost the size of Europe and the United States. It appears smaller than Alaska, but is actually 5 times bigger. Australia is also much larger than it ...

The deepest parts of Earth’s oceans have mostly remained a mystery, mainly because current technology on sea vessels cannot easily map every trough and chasm scattered around the planet. Traditional ...