In December 1917, a busy harbor in eastern Canada became the scene of one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions in history. The port of Halifax supported wartime convoys during World War I, and ...

Maritime disasters are sadly not unusual, and UNESCO estimates that there are more than three million shipwrecks littering the ocean floor. Many of these ships hide ...

Four years after a stricken cargo ship caused the largest plastic spill ever recorded, volunteers on Sri Lanka's beaches are still sifting kilograms of tiny, toxic plastic pellets from the sand.