In recent months, skirmishes have escalated in the highly-contested South China Sea – a marginal sea in the Western Pacific ocean that's a crucial trade route for China, Japan and India ...

For centuries, the dream of connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans has captivated ... This megaproject promises to ...

But it remained to find an overland route to the Pacific Ocean. The Hudson's Bay Company ... that he should take the overland route they used to trade with the coastal Indians.

“The trade winds blow from east to west across the tropical Pacific Ocean,” Seager told Newsweek. “Because of the rotation of the Earth, the winds drive waters northward to the north of the ...