On June 25, 1950, more than 135,000 North Korean troops invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War that cost millions of ...

Linguistics, working on sound shifts, has given us about 1,600 words in Proto-Indo-European, which no one has spoken in over ...

A near-complete skull of a Denisovan, one of the closest extinct relatives of modern humans, has never been recovered – or so ...

If the river could be diverted to its former bed, 1,500,000 acres of arable land would grow the grain and cotton that China needs. China’s Sorrow. Todd had spent 26 of his 65 years studying ...

"MiG Alley" was the nickname given the area between Chongchon Valley and Yalu River, on the Manchuria/Korea frontier. The area was a focus to intercept Chinese MiG fighters, ... It was also ...

Heavy mountain runoff turned a normally calm river into raging rapids in China. Footage shows murky, swollen waters surging ...

Though eclipsed in popular memory by later 20th-century conflicts, the Korean War perhaps remains the longest-lasting — not ...

Rescue workers are using rubber dinghies to evacuate people and deliver food and water after floodwaters overwhelmed towns in southern China’s Guangdong province.

Have we broken the natural contract between humans and rivers? The nature writer debates our relationship with the world’s waterways that inspired his latest book, Is A River Alive?

The shores of Myanmar became visible from Sob Moei village in northeastern Thailand as the morning mist rises over the ...

A new study has revealed for the first time that ancient carbon, stored in landscapes for thousands of years or more, can find its way back to the atmosphere as CO₂ is released from the surfaces ...

Researchers gather knowledge on the phenomenon of atmospheric rivers in Antarctica. by CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research ...