To prevent American warships from entering the area, China stationed 18 destroyers and frigates east of the "first island chain," which stretches from the Philippines to Japan's Nansei Islands ...

China is also no longer hesitant to send its aircraft carrier group through narrow straits in the southernmost Nansei Islands to conduct drills or to practice nuclear bombing runs in the Sea of ...

Throughout national forests across the U.S., year-round camping options are abundant, offering many amenities and accessibility options. National parks, from Yellowstone and Grand Canyon to Acadia ...

The number of SDF personnel stationed in Okinawa Prefecture exceeded 7,000 in 2016, when the first defense outpost in the Nansei Islands opened in Yonagunijima, Japan’s westernmost island just ...

To strengthen wetland conservation, the administration will implement China's law on wetland protection in full, enhance its monitoring and supervision work, advance mangrove conservation and invasive ...

Bainbridge Island School District intends to sell nearly ... a forested area with trails situated next to the Grand Forest East that once had potential for a new school. The school board voted ...

Throughout national forests across the U.S., year-round camping options are abundant, offering many amenities and accessibility options. Outwander used forest service data from the Department of ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead, they are ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

Aucklanders are being warned to secure outdoor furniture and prepare for short-notice harbour bridge lane closures as a slow-moving subtropical low affects the North Island. In Whangārei ...