Between the 16th and 19th centuries, as many as a thousand slave ships carrying captive Africans sank while crossing the Atlantic Ocean. National Geographic explorer and writer Tara Roberts has been ...

The Alachua Conservation Trust is holding a ceremony on Feb. 28 to mark the grand opening of an 86-acre expansion of the ...

Under-sea mountains are key locations for predators -- with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows.

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

Why are some lakes so clear? T here’s just something about clear water that captivates us with its serenity and pristine ...