Off Brazil's coast lies Snake Island, a forbidden paradise teeming with deadly golden lancehead vipers. Its venom, five times ...

Just 20 miles off the coast of southeastern Brazil lies a place so dangerous it has been permanently closed to the public.

Russian troops have likely lost a Su-30SM fighter jet that was carrying out a mission southeast of Zmiinyi (Snake) Island.

The twin-engine, two-seat aircraft – designed for both air superiority and ground attack – crashed for unknown reasons, the ...

Snake Island, also known as Zmiinyi Island, sits about 30 miles off the southern tip of the Ukrainian mainland in the northwestern Black Sea. It's about 185 miles west of Crimea, the Ukrainian ...

Ukraine’s recapture of Snake Island came months after Russia took it in the opening weeks of the war. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SER/AFP via Getty Images A Russian rocket strike on the town of ...

Snake Island has actually been fought over before, but only in the courts. Romania and Ukraine had a long-running territorial dispute over the island and the surrounding seabed, which may contain ...

Snake Island is part of the Odesa region, through which much of Ukraine’s agricultural wealth travels to global markets. In normal times, Ukraine would export around three-quarters of the grain ...

RIGA, Latvia — Russian forces say they have withdrawn from Ukraine’s Snake Island, a highly contested speck of land in the Black Sea they captured shortly after the start of the war ...