The Great Sea: 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 ...

The documentary "Out of Plain Sight" will make its West Coast premiere during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The documentary follows the investigation into thousands of barrels of DDT ...

Walk along the Santa Monica shoreline today and you’ll see an unbroken expanse of sand stretching in one golden ribbon from the Santa Monica Pier down to the Venice Pier about three miles to its south ...

The United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC 3) will open in Nice, France, on June 9, 2025. It is the third conference of its kind, following events in New York in 2017 and Lisbon in 2022. Co-hosted by ...

The oceans store vast amounts of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), a reservoir critical in regulating Earth’s climate and fueling marine ecosystems. But, until now, scientists have lacked a direct way ...

Throughout the history of ocean travel, some liners have vanished without distress calls, wreckage, or survivors. Despite extensive searches, these ships were never located, leaving only theories ...