At 285 feet long, the Peter Iredale represented the pinnacle of sailing vessel technology – the oceangoing equivalent of a luxury sports car with all the bells and whistles. Named for its owner, the ...

Welcome to Mendocino, the Northern California coastal hamlet that feels like it was designed specifically for your weekend ...

San Francisco, where 70 can be considered a hot summer day, is known for its cool summers, but this year, June and July were ...

Tropical Storm Gil is expected to strengthen into a hurricane in the Pacific on Friday, Aug. 1, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The Pacific hurricane season has been busy, with nine named storms and 3-soon-to-be-4 hurricanes, but August is a big month ...

Since the late 1980s multibeam sonar has been providing highly detailed images of a large area of the sea floor.

It is clear that there has been a shift in Beijing’s perception of the Yellow Sea, and its new muscular stance is threatening ...

Researchers discovered communities of creatures living in frigid, pitch-black waters under high pressure ...

A team of researchers discovered a “flourishing” ecosystem of clams, tube worms and other creatures over 30,000 feet below ...

Zealandia, Earth’s hidden eighth continent, revealed in unprecedented detail.

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded hit Russia’s Far East, flooding a fishing port with waves from a tsunami, ...

A magnitude-8.8 earthquake produced large waves in parts of California. Experts say that such an earthquake could have produced a serious tsunami.