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 ...
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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 ...
Soar over SLO County in aerial photos of coast from more than 40 years ago
The photos show Morro Bay, Port San Luis and even Diablo Canyon ahead of its first official year of operation.
Historic ocean liner off Florida’s Gulf Coast will soon be the world’s largest artificial reef
A historic ocean liner will become the world’s largest artificial reef once it reaches its final resting place off Florida’s ...
Abolition wasn’t fueled by just moral or economic concerns – the booming whaling industry also helped sink slavery
The decline and eventual abolition of slavery has been portrayed as the result of tireless activism and moral persuasion by early Quaker advocates like Benjamin Lay who considered slavery one of the ...
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World-first wind-powered containership to have 11,300 sq ft total sail area
French cooperative Windcoop orders world’s first open-hatch, sail-powered containership, aiming to launch a fleet of green ...
Three right whale mothers, calves seen in Cape Cod Bay. 'Traveled hundreds of miles'
Three right whale mother-calf pairs have been spotted in Bay, where researchers are monitoring them. Why they are important.
Claudio's in Greenport changing its name after 155 years
In 2018, after 148 years of family ownership, Claudio’s was sold to new owners, ending its run as the oldest family-run ...
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Whale Sightings Are Up
While researchers along the East Coast have been documenting an “unusual whale mortality event” since 2016, there is a lot of ...
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An uninhabited island, a military base and a ‘desolate’ former whaling station. Trump’s trade war includes unlikely targets
The CIA World Factbook describes the uninhabited islands, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as “80% ice-covered” and “bleak” in the case of Heard Island and the McDonald Islands as “small” and ...