YUMA, Ariz. (AP) – It’s no mystery to Kelly Curtis what happened to the lumber used to build Jabba the Hutt’s sand barge filmed in the sand dunes for a segment in “Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the ...

One summer morning, Le Thi Hong Mai's home collapsed into a river in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, where shoreline erosion caused by sand mining and hydropower dams threatens hundreds of thousands of people ...

In the turquoise waters of the South China Sea, one country is challenging Beijing’s grip on one of the world’s most important maritime thoroughfares. Over four years, Vietnam has built out a series ...