Rip currents are one of the coast’s greatest dangers and account for the most beach rescues every year. Hurricane Erin is ...

A remote island on the Amazon river — now the subject of a territorial dispute between Peru and Colombia — has a single paved road for a main street, which is home to more ...

Investigators on Tuesday were trying to determine what caused an explosion aboard a cargo ship laden with coal as it departed Baltimore’s harbor for East Africa. Officials ...