The Vendée Globe aims to use the media impact of the event to raise public awareness of ocean conservation throughout the round-the-world race. By sailing around the world, the Vendée Globe sailors ...

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

It took feats of engineering and deft piloting to map the planet’s topography, an achievement that continues to pay dividends ...

The volatile activity that has marked September so far may not let up any time soon, as investors are on edge ahead of more key macro events that could shape the tone for trading in the weeks ahead.

Josephine Quinn, a professor of ancient history at Oxford, adds her voice to that dialogue with “How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History.” The book makes a forceful argument and ...

TOKYO (AP) — Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman, became the world’s oldest living person at age 116, following the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas, according to the Guinness World Records.

“I will be honest, I did not forgive him right away,” she told The Globe and Mail. “I could not comprehend how the godfather of my children, our best friend, could have killed the man I loved.

A new study suggests that estimates of the health of the world’s fisheries may be too optimistic. By Manuela Andreoni Counting the number of fish in the ocean may well be one of science’s ...

Our small, but mighty team at Globe Rhode Island just added another ... and I will be based in Providence. Get Rhode Map A weekday briefing from veteran Rhode Island reporters, focused on the ...

An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers for centuries. But this new design just might make distorted maps a thing of the past. In a study released in the International Journal ...