Just hours after he took office in January, Trump instructed the US Board on Geographic Names to make the change.

From Trump's flirtation with renaming the Persian Gulf to the reignited conflict in Kashmir, these are some of the territorial disputes around the world.

THE US has staged its biggest military attack formation ever in the South China Sea region – showcasing supersonic stealth jets, attack helicopters and military drones. The show of power, ...

A new study reveals that less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually recorded, exposing major gaps in ocean ...

We know next to nothing about Earth’s seafloors. According to a study published May 7 in Science Advances, humans have only ...

While China deployed its spy ships in the Philippine Sea, USS Nimitz, a U.S. aircraft carrier, was also operating in the region until it entered the South China Sea last Saturday, providing " presence ...

For our new study, we reviewed the literature on the movements of marine migratory species from 1990 to 2017. We synthesised ...

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would back President Trump and rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. What we know ...

South Korea's military has reported that North Korea launched a series of ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan from its ...

Marine plastic pollution has always been a well-recognised environmental issue, with 9 to 14 million metric tons of plastic ...

Chinese surveillance aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles have been conducting reconnaissance flights around the Philippine ...