The escalating conflict in the Middle East is the latest global situation to punch holes through air traffic flows, a ...

The Flying Ministers: The Salvation Army’s “Flying Padres” cross the Australian outback by air, dropping in on ranches and ...

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 how many countries think about strategy and security. It describes a ...

The forward deployment of warships marks Washington's commitment to maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific region, the Navy ...

Imagine drawing a world map on an orange, peeling the skin to leave a single piece and then flattening it. It would, of course, rip. ... Much of Oceania and Asia uses Pacific-centred maps.

As for ocean basins, the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, covering 63 million square miles, with deep depths averaging 13,000 feet. Drainage, structural and ocean are the major types of basins.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has maps of major world forests. ... Asia and the Pacific region accounts for 18.8 percent of global forests.

Opening her laptop, Tomomi Takemoto studies a 70-year-old map of this claw-shaped island, ... Map may hold key to lost World War II bones at Pacific battle site. By David S. Cloud.

A U.S. Navy E/A-18G electronic warfare aircraft prepares to make an arrested landing on the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Eastern Pacific Ocean on October 1.

The U.S. has the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet with 11 in service, including six based on the West Coast. China ranks second with three aircraft carriers.