WASHINGTON – The iconic sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures found on world maps from medieval and Renaissance times splash to life on the pages of a new book. Chet Van Duzer's "Sea ...

The Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam have rejected as baseless a map released by China that denotes its claims to sovereignty including in the South China Sea and which Beijing said on ...

Sea levels are rising several times faster today than at any other point in roughly the last 3,000 years, according to new research. Scientists project that if humans don't get control over greenhouse ...

Celebrating the anniversary of the world’s first atlas, Google honored Belgian cartographer Abraham Ortelius with a Doodle on Sunday. His famed work, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, or Theatre of the World, ...

Map of the South China Sea, with the Nine-Dash Line highlighted in green. The South China Sea is the world's most-contested waterway. Book reviews are the literary equivalent of visiting a buffet line ...

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