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 8.2-acres in size, Märket island has belonged to both Sweden and Finland for ...

"I love this island so much. This was where my mom and dad raised me ... but sometimes, I think about leaving because of the high tide," Maria Tamayo, a street food vendor in Pugad, told the news ...

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 Bash fundraiser. Karen Plianthos, the founder of the event, said this ...

With more than 60 countries on board, the new international law will soon enter into force, ushering in the world’s first framework to conserve biodiversity across two-thirds of the ocean.

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 they clash, a freak weather event merging them into one monster storm could ...

Named after Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwhara in 1921, the rare phenomenon sparks when two cyclones come within 900 miles of each other and begin spinning around a shared center. Click here to ...

One of the dramatic side effects of the North Atlantic Ocean’s rapid warming, aside from stronger and more frequent hurricanes, is the huge increase in the annual Sargasso bloom from the Cape Verde ...

A global treaty to protect the high seas has reached its ratification goal, with environmentalists calling for the Sargasso Sea to be one of the first areas protected. Noelle Young, a local ...