The reef was named for a ship that ran aground after a battle with pirates. The crew blew up the ship rather than succumb to the pirates. American Shoal Lighthouse: Manned for a brief time during ...

The historic ocean liner SS United States, whose fate had been in limbo for years, will begin its transition into the world's ...

The Chinese military on Monday said an American combat ship “illegally ... China refers to Second Thomas Shoal as Renai Reef. In a response to the South China Morning Post on Monday, Megan ...

Christened in 1952, the SS United States was once considered a beacon of American engineering, doubling as a military vessel that could carry thousands of troops. On its maiden voyage in 1952 ...

Michael Childress, Clemson University (THE CONVERSATION) Armed with scrub brushes, young scuba divers took to the waters of Florida’s Alligator Reef in late July to try to help corals struggling to ...

Teeming with life, a healthy coral reef is one of the noisiest places in the ocean. Recorded using underwater microphones, this cacophony can sound to our ears remarkably like frying bacon. Listen for ...

Nowhere is the situation more precarious than at Second Thomas Shoal, said Zack Cooper, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise ... and stake its claim to the reef. “It’s the most ...

An expert on national security has expressed confidence the incoming Donald Trump presidency will maintain the United States’ ...

which is grounded on the Second Thomas Shoal with a garrison on board, aimed at asserting Manila's claims to the reef. Beijing said Friday it had "supervised" a Philippine ship as it delivered ...

Among the biggest and best-known are the reef systems of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, which is around 2,300 kilometres long. The most biologically diverse reefs in the world can be found in a ...

The Philippines is facing mounting pressure from China to yield its sovereign claims in the South China Sea, according to the ...