Its name, Rotomairewhenua, was given by the Ngāti Apa, a local Māori tribe. The name’s meaning: the lake of peaceful lands. To New Zealanders, and to the Māori, the small body of water is sacred and ...

In a rare encounter, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil's Amazon, the ...

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile — A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral.

Kayaker Adrián Simancas is speaking out after he was briefly stuck inside the mouth of a whale that attempted to swallow him off the coast of Chile.

A spa day for capybaras? Watch as these cold capybaras brave the Japanese winter with their very own hot springs bathtub party.

Rangiroa is a laid-back island paradise full of underwater wonders, including abundant sharks. It's the largest coral atoll ...

A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more ...

A 34-year-old woman Khadija Shabaani was arrested after attacking her co-wife Maimuna Saidi in Chukwani area of Zanzibar.

Longevity expert Dan Buettner has spent years studying Blue Zones, regions worldwide where people astonishingly reach their 100th birthday at remarkable rates.

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

The Post ventured to the front lines of an offensive against the Islamic State in northern Somalia, where foreign fighters are flowing in and cash is flowing out.