Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tried Sunday to defend the Trump administration slapping tariffs on islands populated only by penguins by suggesting that ships could stop there in order to dodge ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Sunday defended President Donald Trump's tariff rollout last week when asked why two uninhabited islands were hit with the fees, saying in a new interview ...

Between rising sea levels from the climate crisis, a history of nuclear testing causing radioactive pollution and population displacement, the Marshall Islands face numerous threats. Now, ...

Penguins are the most abundant birds on the Heard Island and McDonald Islands group. The islands are also home to other animals including seals, flying birds and invertebrates — but no humans.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced the US was imposing reciprocal tariffs on a small collection of Antarctic islands that are not inhabited by humans, as part of a global trade war ...

Tokyo severely protested China against infringement of its sovereignty, while Beijing urged Japan to cease "illegal activities" around the islands, which it claims as its own territory.

Among the barrage of tariffs announced by U.S. president Donald Trump on Wednesday were those imposed (bafflingly to many) on a collection of remote, pristine and storm-battered islands with no ...