A Human History of the Mediterranean; By Davide Abulafia; Oxford University Press; 816 pp., $68.00 If you read the better class of these ocean books, you might soon find yourself convinced of the ...

A tourist was stunned by a dangerous fish that was invisible to her in the waters off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.

The General Assembly’s demand implied that both the ICJ opinion and its own resolution had binding force, when this is not ...

Here, in short, is an opportunity to right a historic wrong while at the same time preserving the most important Western base in the region.

This decision comes after the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) approved the Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) earlier this year.

Starship is scheduled to launch for the sixth time on Monday evening (Nov. 18). Both pieces of SpaceX's Starship megarocket ...

The USS "Edsall," a 314-foot-long destroyer, fought off Japanese forces for more than an hour before sinking beneath the ...

Maldives' mangroves decline rapidly due to sea-level rise and salinity, threatening coastal resilience worldwide.

Researchers have found evidence that mangrove forests -- which protect tropical and subtropical coastlines -- are drowning in the Maldives. Their finding indicate that rising sea level and a climate ...

Flight MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014, shortly after departing Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 239 people aboard.

The wreckage of the U.S. destroyer USS Edsall, sunk by Japanese forces more than 80 years ago during World War II, has been ...

The USS Esdall, a 314-foot destroyer sunk by Japanese forces in 1942, was known as "the dancing mouse" for its ability to ...