Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

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My students find me weird because in the age of Google and Waze, I continue to be intrigued by physical maps of the ...

National Weather Service forecasters are predicting the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, which begins June 1 and ends Nov. 30, ...

Known as the Sargasso Sea, sailors have crossed it for centuries, but few notice the border when they slip into glassy indigo ...

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Federal forecasters predicted an unusually heavy hurricane season at a briefing in New Orleans on Thursday. “Everything’s in ...

As it grapples with job cuts and staff shortages, NOAA is projecting as many as 19 named storms to form in the Atlantic basin this hurricane season.

Despite growing foreign condemnation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue the war to eliminate Hamas ...

Rockport sits at the tip of Cape Ann, about 40 miles north of Boston, like a colorful thumbtack on the map of Massachusetts. Founded in 1690 as a timber and granite harvesting settlement, Rockport ...

The tourism industry is booming in the Dominican Republic, with the island destination garnering more than 11 million annual ...