“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

The presence of a Chinese research ship comes after Beijing's warships circumnavigated Australia less than a month ago.

THE Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) has officially lifted the La Niña ...

Fishing vessels can often work long periods at sea without coming to port, thanks to the practice of transshipment, in which ...

Some of the more sparsely populated territories in the world that do little trade with the United States have been caught up ...

President Trump, as part of his expansive package of new tariffs, levied taxes on a number of uninhabited or sparsely ...

Donald Trump’s latest wave of import tariffs has sparked global bewilderment, reaching not only impoverished countries but ...

Madagascar, the “mountain kingdom” of Lesotho and Pacific island Nauru are on the list of countries hit with punishing US ...

There is no tropical cyclone or low pressure area being monitored inside or outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility ...

New Delhi: Summer, which begins on April 1, and goes on till June 30, will be hotter, with more so-called heatwave days in ...

Head of United Nations seabed authority warns move would be 'violation of international law' and undermine multilateral efforts to govern the world's oceans.

Diplomats from more than 30 nations have criticized a proposal that could allow the start of seabed mining by 2027.