Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New ...

Equipment failure led Flight 232 from Denver to Chicago to crash in Sioux City in 1989, killing more than 100 people.

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

Nauru, a tiny island nation in the Pacific Ocean, is one of the only sovereign states without a designated capital city.

Point Nemo, located approximately 2,688 kilometers from the nearest land, is known for its extreme isolation and serves as ...

FS Charles de Gaulle will be the first French aircraft carrier to be deployed to the Pacific Ocean since 1968.

Friends of the Mariana Trench chair Sheila Babauta said Trump'sdecision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate ...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, causing ...

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The waters around two remote atolls in the central Pacific Ocean—spanning 18,500 square miles—are now protected from fishing ...

Neither side's official readout of the call on Monday mentioned that they talked about the much-criticised planned handover ...

By Shanna Hanbury The Marshall Islands government has announced it will protect an area of the Pacific Ocean described as one ...