MANILA, Philippines — A long-running dispute over who gets to fish in the country’s municipal waters — the first 15 kilometers from the shoreline — has resurfaced, rekindling tensions between government fisheries officials, environmental groups, and small-scale fisherfolk. At the center of the debate is whether commercial fishing vessels shouldContinue Reading

For the first time, scientists have captured global images showing how Earth’s magnetic shield behaves — including a long-suspected but never-before-seen “tail” made of electrified gas. The discovery was made by NASA’s Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) spacecraft and published in the journal Science. The images offerContinue Reading

MANILA, Philippines — Massive sinkholes, some plunging hundreds of feet into the ground, are tearing through central Turkey’s Konya Plain, unsettling farming communities and igniting online speculation that the phenomenon fulfills a biblical prophecy. On social media, some users have cited a passage from the Book of Numbers describing the earthContinue Reading