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Once the fourth-largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea is now a haunting symbol of human environmental failure. Stretching ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Oxford has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made, ...

MANILA, Philippines — The “West Philippine Sea” label is back on Google Maps, according to a spokesperson from the tech firm on Thursday, May 1. The Philippine government initially welcomed ...

Lancetfish typically live in tropical and subtropical waters, but they migrate as far north as Alaska’s Bering Sea to feed. Since 1982, NOAA groundfish surveys have recorded two in the Gulf of ...

(SPOT.ph) Look up the West Philippine Sea on Google Maps and you’ll now see it labeled right where it should be. The map update comes as a subtle yet significant change: the term "West Philippine Sea" ...

Yet that is what the UK continually serves up when it comes to North Sea oil and gas. A government consultation on securing the North Sea’s “energy future” closes next week. As the UK moves ...

NORAD released photos on the intercept of six Russian aircraft which were operating over the Bering Sea in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Apr. 14, 2025. According to NORAD ...

The catcher-processor Arctic Storm, as seen in 2007 in Seattle. The vessel remains hard at work in the Bering Sea pollock fishery and is taking part in the trawl industry’s Gear Innovation Initiative.

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When remnants of Typhoon Merbok hit the Alaska Native village of Hooper Bay in 2022, the impact was immediate and — for this roughly 1,400-person town on the edge of the Bering Sea — disastrous.