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Wander amid thundering falls and towering trees at this enchanting Vancouver Island park, home to a glistening lake and ...

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Our list of the best botanic gardens in Southern California spans Santa Barbara to San Diego and includes gardens everyone ...

Removing buoys that mark hazards in RI waters could save the Coast Guard money, but boaters say it could come at a high cost.

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In this newest sanctuary, NOAA partners with an Indigenous tribe to protect vital marine habitat and sacred places.

Many predate electronic charts, global positioning system technology, and automatic identification system (AIS) transceivers, which are mandatory on fishing boats and large commercial vessels.

In 1812, Swiss scholar Johann Ludwig Burckhardt found himself standing at the entrance to a wadi, a dry-river valley ... in which Moses makes water flow by striking a rock from his staff ...