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10 Classic and Contemporary Book Titles to include in your Superyacht library. Some are also films, so non-page-turners can join in spirited discussions.

Research on a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth unveils her migration patterns, interactions with early humans, and contributions to understanding mammoth life and extinction. An international team of researchers from McMaster University, University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Ottawa h

A University of New England professor and his students are decoding lobster DNA to try to uncover the genetic basis for rare, multicolored lobsters.

The Kasitsna Bay Laboratory is located on the south side of Kachemak Bay from Homer near the community of Seldovia. According to the facility website, the laboratory is owned by NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and operated in partnership by NCCOS and the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

From Maine to California, communities across America struggle to provide clean drinking water to their residents. In contrast, the Boothbay region has a matchless opportunity to preserve our public drinking water supplies before we have a problem...

Tuesday, March 5 The CDWI (Clean Drinking Water Initiative) will present three evening sessions on why and how to protect our local drinking water sources. Each session is a self-contained unit and participants may attend one, two or all three. The...

Dana Wilde ponders the philosophic implications of creatures from the sea.

The female woolly mammoth was 20 years old when she stumbled amid the grasslands. She fell in a cloud of dust, then gasped her last breath of cool air. It

Some marine biologists think the trash-collecting machines are harming more ocean organisms than they’re helping.

A 2.8km-deep octopus nursery, only the third known in the world, was discovered by marine scientists in July as they explored previously unseen seamounts off