— -- The fast-growing cruise industry is facing one of its biggest tests in years after this week's Costa Concordia disaster off the coast of Italy. Many Wall Street analysts, travel agents and ...

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka is once again facing a significant marine environmental crisis, as tiny plastic pellets, commonly known as nurdles), have begun washing ashore along the island’s northern coastline ...

After 100 years, a grad student accidentally found new images of the tragedy. — -- One hundred years after a boat capsized in the Chicago river, killing 844 people, archival footage of the ...

Graph illustrating the stark increase in global trade (exports and imports) in the late 1800s, with an exponential increase (dashed colored line) becoming particularly marked by circa 1980. Numbers ...

The Liberia-flagged vessel MSC ELSA 3, carrying 640 containers, including 13 with hazardous cargo, along with almost 85 metric tons of diesel and 367 metric tons of furnace oil, sank off of Kerala, in ...