You’ve probably never heard of King Salmon, a tiny fishing enclave along the Northern California coast. About 250 miles north of San Francisco, the man-made peninsula is markedly pleasant, its ...

Old whaling ship logbooks in a local library may offer up new insight into climate change. An unlikely project is unfolding at the Providence Public Library. Local historians and scientists are ...

to the Arctic. Read the whole story in the latest issue of AG, out now! Find more blogs in this series here. ONE MORNING’S ZODIAC excursion had brought us to Amsterdamoya and, more specifically, the ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. A little after 7:30 in the morning on Wednesday, December 7, 1887, in the ...

Next time you’re at Goleta Beach, look toward UCSB and notice the dark rock formation at the base of the bluffs. The lovely location once was the scene of blood and carnage, all in the name of ...

Weather reports made by mariners more than two hundred years ago may have relevance for research into climate change today. Some local scientists believe the records from whaling ship logs hold data ...

Commercial whaling in the 20 th century decimated populations of large whales but also appears to have had a lasting impact on the genetic diversity of today’s surviving whales, new research from ...

The discovery of a 207-year-old whaling ship in the Gulf of Mexico is shedding light on the history of its Black and Native American crew members in the early 1800s. The National Oceanic and ...

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A little after 7:30 in the morning on Wednesday, December 7, 1887, in the aftermath of remarkably strong northeasterly winds, Captain William A. Martin instructed the crew of the Eunice H. Adams, a ...