Around 1550, life on Rapa Nui began changing in ways long misunderstood. New research reveals that a severe drought, lasting more than a century, dramatically reduced rainfall on the already ...

The U.S. military says it has boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that the U.S. tracked the vessel from the Caribbean Sea as part of an oil ...

The sanctioned ship was the eighth vessel apprehended by the U.S. in connection with the quasi blockade of Venezuela’s oil ...

U.S. military forces boarded a crude oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after pursuing it from the Caribbean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday, accusing the vessel of breaching Washington's ...

Astove is one of the most southerly of the 72 uninhabited atolls and cays that make up the Outer Islands of the Seychelles. It is flung 1,000 kilometres – and two plane rides – southwest of the ...

Far out in the Atlantic, Bermuda rises from the ocean floor with no obvious reason to be there. It is not perched on a spreading ridge, nor does it sit above a classic deep mantle plume like Hawaii.