No details have been released, but analysts and environmentalists fear it will pave the way for closer security ties and the ...

This is a well-written important paper on the recovery of fauna and flora following the end-Permian extinction event in several continental sites in northern China. The convincing conclusion, a rapid ...

Beijing has hit back at Canberra after Australia demanded answers as to why a Chinese warplane dropped flares on a Royal Australian Air Force surveillance aircraft.

Marine exploration could be redefined with China finally giving the green light to a deep-sea research facility. The facility ...

The White House says it's a 'fact' that the Gulf of Mexico has been renamed. Is that right? - For more than four centuries, the body of water stretching from Florida through Texas and into Mexico has ...

Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 12 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of February 7.

Back in Nuuk, Lynge turns to the map once more to reflect on how Greenland became caught up in a much bigger game. He refers to the 1946 attempt by the US to buy Greenland from Denmark, under which ...

Google says it will rename the Gulf of Mexico on its U.S. maps, and Mexico is pushing back. This wouldn't be the first body ...

He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues ... China claims upward of 90 percent of the ...

It will only appear on Google Maps with the new name for people based ... because the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea dictates that an individual country's sovereign territory ...

Renaming it the Gulf of America would apply only in the US. And the long global history of disputed place names suggests it could be a brief experiment anyway.