Fiery Cross Reef is Beijing's most important military and administrative outpost in the disputed Spratly Islands.

Mysterious man-made islands in Scotland are thousands of years older than we thought. The stone structures are found in lochs across the country and were likely built by ancient Britons as sacred ...

A roseate spoonbill captures a crayfish breakfast in Lake Maggorie, St. Petersburg. By Seán Kinane (June 2021). Thousands of shorebirds gather off dredge disposal islands – islands around the Tampa ...

A Newsweek timelapse compiled from a decade of satellite imagery shows how China transformed an artificial island in the South China Sea into a large military outpost comparable to an unsinkable ...

Built atop an atoll, Fiery Cross Reef is one of seven China reclaimed during its 2013–2016 dredging spree that created more than 3,000 acres of new land. Today, it is a fortified base for the People's ...