On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific ...

They include mental mapping of the islands in the sailors' navigational universe and the location of potential destinations in relation to the movement of stars, ocean currents, winds and waves.

Our list of the best botanic gardens in Southern California spans Santa Barbara to San Diego and includes gardens everyone ...

In 1938, Māori scholar Te Rangi Hīroa (aka Sir Peter Buck) authored "Vikings of the Sunrise," outlining Pacific exploration ... direction and effect on the canoe. During daylight, when stars are ...

According to geologists at the UK’s Heriot Watt University, gigantic waves of mud and sand sediment about 250 miles off the coast of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa indicate the Atlantic Ocean ...

Until now, the inner Solar System looked like a mostly charted neighborhood. Astronomers tracked thousands of near‑Earth ...

They’re ugly. Tents — coming in bright hues of blue, orange and pink — ruin the aesthetic tableau of ocean waves serenely washing over the sand, several commenters said. They’re unfair.

an ocean ecologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who was not involved with the new study. The tactic helps clownfish weather heat waves in the short-term, but it’s not yet clear how ...