The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

For the record, China has pursued a decadely war of strategic position in the South China Sea, turning reefs into artificial islands and seizing Filipino waters. In 2016, the U.N.'s Hague's ...

The Wallace Line divides species in Southeast Asia. A deep ocean trench prevents animal migration. Even flying birds rarely ...

Back then, it was a regional list, conceived as an objective way to determine which mountains in the Indonesian archipelago would probably be worth attempting to hike at weekends. We developed the ...

Locals swear that Highway 63 Diner serves up the world’s best French onion soup. That’s a pretty bold claim, considering ...

At a similar rate, winds in the southern region are blowing from southwest to northwest. "The highest wind speeds were observed in the Java Sea, the Indian Ocean west of Lampung to southern East Java, ...

Sea turtles navigate using Earth's magnetic field like a GPS. Scientists found they learn and remember magnetic locations.

This Google Maps image captured in 2021 revealed a mysterious, triangular dark patch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ...

Flash flooding and landslides on Indonesia’s main island of Java have killed at least 21 ... why they happen with some frequency in Indonesia, and how Earth's warming climate may contribute ...

Bouncing back from under the weight of Ice Age glaciers which have long since vanished, the Nordic region land mass is slowly ...

Loggerhead sea turtles make impressive ... The turtles rely on Earth’s magnetic field to help them navigate in two ways. A magnetic map aids with location tracking, and a magnetic compass ...