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How 200-year-old whaling logs are helping scientists track climate change
What can centuries-old whaling ship logs tell us about today’s extreme weather? According to scientists, the answer is a lot. They’re using the information recorded by mariners going back hundreds of ...
Dan Haar: Mystic Seaport Museum to exhibit hundreds of historic boats — but needs a money boost
Mystic Seaport Museum is working to open an exhibition space to show its American Watercraft Collection of rare vessels in ...
UC San Diego professor shares broader history of Black Americans along the Pacific coast in public exhibition
Caroline Collins looks at such people as mariners, explorers, whalers and shipbuilders between the 16th and 20th centuries ...
The Bookseller6d
Books in the Media: Jon Stock's 'shocking' account of William Sargant
This week, critics turned to the first non-fiction title from thriller writer Jon Stock, alongside titles by Xiaolu Guo and ...
Abolition wasn’t fueled by just moral or economic concerns – the booming whaling industry also helped sink slavery
New research shows that when the whaling industry in the US produced more products, the proportion of slaves also declined in ...
CNN3d
An uninhabited island, a military base and a ‘desolate’ former whaling station. Trump’s tariffs include unlikely targets
With a population of 600 people, the territory sends 32% of its exports – ships – to the US ... the small Norwegian island and former whaling station of Jan Mayen faces 10% tariffs.
New York Magazine on MSN1d
Trump’s New Baseline Tariff Takes Effect: Live Updates
It’s April 5, which means the first of Trump sweeping new tariffs — the baseline global tariff of 10 percent — is now in ...
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UNK biology faculty member talks of his month in Antarctica with thousands of penguins
Jacob Cooper spent a month on a small boat studying penguins off the coast of Antarctica. He shivered. He got seasick. It was ...
Old photos of US Navy vessels misrepresented as showing 'rusty Chinese warships'
After China conducted live-fire drills off the coast of Australia in February 2025, four photos of rusty warships were ...
The Mercury3d
New players have jumped on the Ships as they go for back-to-back Old Scholars premierships
OHA will start as flag favourites in their bid for back-to-back Old Scholars Football Association premierships. New defender Riley Whitelaw reveals what drew him to the club. The Ships sank DOSA ...