THITU ISLAND, South China Sea — The Philippines inaugurated a new coast guard monitoring base Friday on an island occupied by Filipino forces in the disputed South China Sea and plans to expand joint patrols with the United States and Australia to counter China’s “pure bullying” in the strategic waterway, a Philippine security official said. … Read more
The Jordan River is a winding, 200-plus-mile run on the eastern flank of Israel and the occupied West Bank. The sea is the glittering Mediterranean to its west. But a phrase about the space in between, “from the river to the sea,” has become a battle cry with new power to roil Jews and pro-Palestinian … Read more
MANAUS — The Negro River, the major tributary that runs through the Brazilian Amazon, has reached historic lows, revealing millennia-old carvings previously hidden under water. The engravings deeply etched into the black rock along the riverbanks represent human faces, animals and other figures, and are thought to be 1,000 to 2,000 years old, archaeologists said. … Read more
DAJABON, Dominican Republic — The Dominican Republic partially reopened its border with Haiti on Wednesday to limited commercial activity nearly a month after shuttering the frontier in a continuing spat over construction of a canal targeting water from a shared river. Vendors in Dominican border cities are allowed to sell basic goods like food and … Read more
MANAUS, Brazil — Communities dependent on the Amazon rainforest’s waterways are stranded without supply of fuel, food or filtered water. Dozens of river dolphins perished and washed up on shore. And thousands of lifeless fish float on the water’s surface. These are just the first grim visions of extreme drought sweeping across Brazil’s Amazon. The … Read more
BAJO CHIQUITO, Panama — Rain-swollen rivers only briefly slowed the otherwise uninterrupted flow of migrants through this jungle-covered border area separating Colombia and Panama and by midweek another 2,000 bedraggled migrants stumbled out of the Darien jungle. Pregnant women and men carrying children atop their shoulders waded across the waist-deep Tuquesa river and into the … Read more
The Panama Canal is reducing the maximum number of ships allowed to travel the waterway to 31 per day due to a drought that has cut the supply of fresh water needed to operate the locks ByThe Associated Press September 30, 2023, 7:19 PM A cargo ship sail on Pacific side toward the Panama Canal … Read more
Officials say the Amazon rainforest in Brazil is facing a severe drought that may affect around 500,000 people by the end of the year ByThe Associated Press September 26, 2023, 2:55 PM View of the much-diminished Negro river shore amid an ongoing drought in Manaus, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. The Brazilian Amazon rainforest is … Read more
The president of the Dominican Republic is defending his determination to shut air, sea and land site visitors with neighboring Haiti in a dispute over development of a canal focusing on a river that runs by means of each international locations ByMARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Related Press September 17, 2023, 7:59 PM Dominican Republic safety forces … Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Western-backed maritime forces within the Center East on Saturday warned shippers touring by the strategic Strait of Hormuz to remain as distant from Iranian territorial waters as potential to keep away from being seized, a stark advisory amid heightened tensions between Iran and the U.S. The same warning went out … Read more