One of the biggest navigation challenges is knowing where you are in the open ocean without tools or devices. This remarkable skill is exemplified by the ancient techniques once used by expert ...

A tiny piece of land in the Baltic Sea is the world's smallest 'divided island' shared by two countries. Despite being just 8 ...

Torn off from the Indian subcontinent some 88 million years ago, it’s a Petri dish of endemic evolution: the Texas-sized ...

"I love this island so much. This was where my mom and dad raised me ... but sometimes, I think about leaving because of the ...

More than 1,600 pounds of trash was plucked from the ocean over the course of a month as part of the eighth annual Cash Trash ...

With more than 60 countries on board, the new international law will soon enter into force, ushering in the world’s first ...

Her own latest novel explores the ache of not fitting in, but which stories about belonging have inspired her life and work?

Two tropical cyclones are barreling through the Atlantic on a potential collision course — and in the unlikely event that ...

Named after Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwhara in 1921, the rare phenomenon sparks when two cyclones come within 900 ...