Nations worldwide maintain territories for strategic and military purposes, often remnants of colonial empires.

Richard Dunn, a longtime sportswriter, writes the Dunn Deal column regularly for The Orange County Register’s weekly, The ...

A storm moving across the country could bring 1 to 2 feet of snow to parts of Massachusetts and New England this weekend. It ...

Early-career scientists at Rutgers lead an ambitious expedition to study ocean mixing and its role in sustaining life and ...

During training cruises and regattas, sailors collect valuable data for climate research at sea. A study appearing in Science ...

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Ancient shoreline features hint that water on Mars once formed a vast ocean.

How much snow will Boston get from a monster winter storm this weekend? Here's the latest weather forecast.

Using robotic fins, researchers at the University of California, Riverside have learned how stingrays are able to swim with ...

Antarctic ice loss increased rapidly in past climates when oceans warmed first, raising risks for modern coastlines.

After submerging the robot in underwater tunnels designed to mimic swimming near the sea floor, their tests indicate that ...

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way ...