A Florida state senator has filed a bill to make the newly official name "Gulf of America" consistent throughout state statutes.

Bermuda has received the blessings of a global international conservation body to be designated an important marine area to ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

As Tate stages the first major exhibition of the surrealist artist, Oliver Smith follows her to the ancient stone circles of Penwith ...

Under our feet, processes are occurring that could reshape the world map in the long run. Africa, although it seems like a uniform landmass, is gradually splitting into two parts. This change is the ...

A brief tsunami warning was issued for Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands on Saturday ...

THE moorland crossing from Lealholm to Scaling Reservoir requires certain navigation skills, but in my humble opinion the better for it.

For more than four centuries, the body of water stretching from Florida through Texas and into Mexico has been known as the ...

Tourists have left, schools are closed. Santorini, source of 2% of the Greece GDP, has been evacuated. There has been continuous shaking for two weeks. The epicentre is 20 km from Santorini and ...

Proposals to build high-end homes on Cane Island near Beaufort are in the initial stages but a decades-old development ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

On Christmas Eve, Chad Tavernia got a call from a woman about her golden retriever. Its leash had snapped, and the dog had ...