Maritime disasters are sadly not unusual, and UNESCO estimates that there are more than three million shipwrecks littering the ocean floor. Many of these ships hide ...

Four years after a stricken cargo ship caused the largest plastic spill ever recorded, volunteers on Sri Lanka's beaches are still sifting kilograms of tiny, toxic plastic pellets from the sand.

In December 1917, a busy harbor in eastern Canada became the scene of one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions in history. The port of Halifax supported wartime convoys during World War I, and ...