A tsunami hit coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan after a powerful, 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the ...

Carolina Beach State Park is the escape hatch you’ve been searching for. Tucked away on the southeastern coast of North Carolina, this 761-acre natural wonderland offers an instant disconnect from the ...

Scuba diving brings in over $20 billion a year and supports 124,000 jobs - while helping protect reefs, kelp forests, and ...

There is a main story to Tales of the Shire as well as simple side quests that involve getting to know the other Hobbits. The ...

Interest in Greenland’s minerals is soaring, driven in part by Trump, who has said the U.S. must “get” the island. But the ...

The vastness of the Pacific Ocean holds countless mysteries, some of which are more awe-inspiring than others. Recently, a ...

Marine protected areas cover more than 8% of the world's oceans today, but they can get a bad rap as being protected on paper ...

Agencies such as national navies and coast guards no longer need to rely solely on costly physical patrols over huge areas. With tools such as the Global Fishing Watch map, which makes vessel tracking ...

To catch these “dark vessels,” the team turned to synthetic aperture radar, or SAR. This is a satellite technology that sends ...

Illegal fishing is a global problem that threatens the health of ocean ecosystems and the economic viability of the fishing ...

By tracking the DNA “barcodes” of sea creatures, researchers have found species previously unknown to science.

Fishing yields in the Upper Paraná River, on the border between the Brazilian states of São Paulo, Paraná, and Mato Grosso do ...