Heavy snowfall has battered a wide area of Japan, especially the Hokuriku region along the Sea of Japan coast. This video ...

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Ohno is an ama diver, or a “sea woman” as they are known in Japan. For centuries, these traditional fisherwomen have lived off the riches of the waters around the Ise-Shima region, collecting seafood ...

Google says it will rename the Gulf of Mexico on its U.S. maps, and Mexico is pushing back. This wouldn't be the first body ...

Diplomatic Courier editor Jeremy Fugleberg brings you three under–the–radar stories from the Hinterlands: scientists search ...

You might be hearing about the gulf off the coast of the U.S. and Mexico. Here's what to know about the body of water the ...

Changing maps to say "Gulf of America" doesn't change history, and likely won't change what most people call the massive ...

The Gulf of Mexico, a 218,000-square-mile oceanic basin, has been named as such for at least 400 years by European explorers ...

Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S.

Map lines are inherently political ... referred to as the Sea of Japan by the Japanese and the East Sea by Koreans. The ...

The USS Carl Vinson is conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, with the George Washington in Japan and the Nimitz in the Eastern Pacific.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out ...