The Island Packet5h
Research booms at USC-owned island after $1M boost. McMaster: Pritchards is ‘Garden of Eden’
“We want to see who are the ocean travelers on our trash,” Brugler said ... migratory shore birds, dune plants, bats, mosquito-born diseases and even a marine worm that could one day be used in ...
Food, Offering, Medicine, Political Symbol: What the Lotus Means in Sri Lanka
“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...
La Brújula Verde2h
George Anson, the British seafarer who circumnavigated the world to capture the Spanish Acapulco Galleon
The War of Jenkins’ Ear pitted Britain against Spain from 1739 to 1748, leaving three particularly noteworthy episodes in its ...
How travellers can responsibly explore Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and Kangaroo Island
Recently, many of Australia’s iconic natural wonders have been increasingly challenged, from the series of coral bleaching ...
The New York Times17h
New York Times - Top Stories
Trump Taps Matt Gaetz for Attorney General, a Provocative Move President-elect Trump plans to nominate the Florida congressman, among a flurry of personnel announcements as Republicans neared ...