South America is one of the easiest continents for American travelers craving adventure without bureaucracy. With vast ...

With translucent sapphire water and endless sandbars, the Exumas are the ultimate dreamy, easygoing charter destination.

Under the surface of the ocean, "constellations" of towering subsea mountains dot the Earth – and they are teeming with ...

A few hundred miles off the coast of Ecuador is a little string of islands with a big place in the public consciousness. The word “Galapagos” is practically synonymous with “tropical island ...

Pigs, rats, cats and mongooses, all brought to the island decades earlier by humans, were to blame for their demise, preying ...

A new study found several species in the shark genus Carcharhinus are at risk of extinction. If so, ecosystems could fall ...

We often mindlessly trample on snails and earthworms because they move so slowly compared to the average human, but there’s a ...

Windswept isolation, inhospitality to humans, and piracy have historically kept this place one of the planet's truly wild and ...

In the early 1970s, a working-class family from Staffordshire sold their farm and went on a voyage around the world. After buying a 50-year-old schooner named Lucette, Dougal and Lyn Robertson took ...

Since most of our planet is comprised of water - with the ocean making up over 70% of the Earth’s surface - there’s a lot to be discovered in the sea, and it’s a place that captivates at every turn.

Gramma, who died at the zoo on Thursday, was believed to have been born in 1884, when Chester A. Arthur was in the White House.

Joaquim Avelino Fragoso used to kill sea turtles to eat or to sell when he saw them in the coastal waters and beaches around ...