All over the world, hundreds or thousands of years ago, people set sail for parts unknown. They loaded their vessels with supplies and left sight of land, charting their path along the way. They found ...

Ty Hibbs has been seeing few other boats fishing along the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain. (Photo by Todd Masson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) (Todd Masson) To the uninitiated, Lake Pontchartrain ...

In a lab at the University of Miami, there are tanks of knobby, tan-colored corals from Florida, Honduras and the Cayman Islands. They've been drafted into a sort of coral Olympics, as scientists look ...