Alexander the Great's empire spanned much of the known world, but historians are still debating whether he knew about the ...

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My thanks to the Republic of Kazakhstan for the invitation to speak at this important event on drying seas and lakes during the seventh session of the ...

Imagine a body of water so vast that fishermen once sailed for hours without seeing land, where waves crashed against busy ...

Niğmet and Ali are both from the village of Tekelioğlu, which abutted the lake. Niğmet fished in its waters, she reminisces, eating what she caught. Ali learned to swim in Marmara Lake when he was a ...

Once among the world’s largest lakes, the Aral Sea has almost vanished due to massive Soviet irrigation schemes; this ...

Got plans for Sept. 19 and 20 in Asbury Park? Those are the just announced dates for the 2026 edition of the Sea Hear Now festival, which was headlined last September by Hozier and Blink-182. “Save ...

Ethiopia’s prime minister loves big projects. With a contentious megadam completed on the Nile, Abiy Ahmed is now planning ...

Strikes on four vessels signal that Kyiv is willing to expand the maritime theater of the conflict in an effort to crimp ...

Bukhara is Uzbekistan's very own UNESCO-listed town and another prominent stop on the silk route trade. Full of grand architecture and histoty, this is a place than can actually be explored deeply, ...

CALI, Colombia—They see themselves as the cowboys of the drug trade, highly experienced crews that ferry narcotics on small boats across the open seas, running on a mix of bravado, skill and dreams of ...