When a South Carolinian thinks of the worst hurricanes in Palmetto State history, Hugo, Andrew, and Gracie often come to mind, but no S.C. storm rivals the Sea Island Hurricane of 1893 in terms of ...

Britain is to take dozens of asylum seekers from the Chagos Islands instead of sending them to St Helena or Rwanda. Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, and David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary ...

The island encompasses just 20 acres, so Dini had to be inventive to create a full-featured luxury environment that also blended in with the coral reefs and clear waters of the Red Sea.

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, a 1,703-metre (5,587-feet) twin volcano located on the popular tourist island of Flores, first erupted shortly before midnight on Sunday, forcing authorities to evacuate ...

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Sea Pork is a member of the tunicate family and can be found on beaches along the each coast. This one was on Hilton Head Island. Mandy Matney mmatney@islandpacket.com Hurricane season can bring ...

This is around twice the length of Vietnam’s 1,300-meter runway on Spratly Island, and would be “sufficient for most aircraft to take off and land at sea level.” AMTI said that the new ...

Hainan, a palm-fringed island known as China’s Hawaii, sits in the warm tropical waters of the South China Sea east of Vietnam. It’s a popular tourist destination with soft-sand beaches ...

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The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) identifies the Marshall Islands as particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts, with rising sea levels posing an existential threat.

The wisps of "sea smoke" blowing above the Pine Island glacier would typically be a sight obfuscated by clouds. But on Oct. 10, the U.S. Geological Survey's Landsat 8 satellite, which NASA helped ...