The contested South China Sea boasts rich oil and gas reserves and could play a key role in a conflict over Taiwan.

Jamaican music superstar Sean Paul has said the scale of the effort required to help people in the country is "overwhelming" ...

But Changxing Island shows it is more realistic to expect another path—namely, that other countries will find it ever harder ...

For now, the Pacific Islands have mostly sought to avoid explicit alignment with either China or the United States and its partners. At this year’s Pacific Islands Forum Leaders ...

In Jamaica, the destruction comes just 15 months after Hurricane Beryl impacted more than 50,000 farmers and 11,000 fishers.

Now, satellite images reveal in detail the areas ravaged by Melissa and, for hard-hit Black River, the scale of destruction.

Seismic activity manifested as a swarm of earthquakes between July 29 and August 4, located to the west of the Farasan ...

The scale of the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa is emerging, with dozens of people known to have died in Haiti and ...

The strongest storm to strike the Caribbean island in modern history, the hurricane sustained winds of 298km/h (185 mph) at its peak - stronger than Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in ...

In this extract from her new book Sink or Swim, Susannah Fisher unpacks ten reasons why efforts to adapt are proving so ...

Like other blasts this year, Melissa has exhibited strange, intense growth spurts - which scientists are attributing to ...