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Photos show US and China's aircraft carriers deployed to Pacific waters
The U.S. has deployed an aircraft carrier in Japan as China continues to challenge its naval dominance in the Western Pacific ...
A look at the Pacific Islands and the U.S. territories there
The U.S. has 16 territories in areas of the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean. People living in U.S. territories are citizens of ...
Kirstin Downey: Lindbergh Opened Skies To Hawaiʻi, Then Lived And Died Here
Lindbergh’s 33-hour trans-Atlantic flight in May 1927 changed the world forever, marking the dawn of global aviation. It ...
Africa is splitting—and Earth's sixth ocean is rising from below
In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A ...
How the Indo-Pacific got its name – and what China has to do with it
Dating back to a German geographer favoured by Hitler and popularised by a former Japanese PM, the term was a strategic ...
The Diplomat10d
What or Where Is the Indo-Pacific?
Open a book of maps and look for the “Indo-Pacific” region – it likely won’t be there. Yet the Indo-Pacific is now central to ...
Houston Chronicle15d
What or where is the Indo-Pacific? How a foreign policy pivot redefined the global map
The Indian Ocean could no longer be treated as a secondary concern. Nor could the Pacific be thought of in isolation from what was happening further west. Japan helped give political voice to this ...
The Washington Post28d
Hurricane season is weeks away. Cooling in the Pacific could drive more activity.
And it happened unexpectedly fast. If the trend continues, it could encourage the return of La Niña-like conditions in the Pacific Ocean later this year. And if that happens, winds over the ...