Tide-fed ocean pools create a space where swimmers can enjoy seawater without dealing with rough surf. These spots fill through natural gaps in rock, underwater tunnels, or waves washing over stone ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA BARBARA, CA – Mystic Ocean Adventures (MOA), the non-profit organization operating the educational tall ship Mystic ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says its plan to dismantle the Education Department offers a fix for the nation’s lagging academics — a solution that could free schools from the strictures ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with John King, Chancellor of State University of New York and former education secretary, about the changes at the U.S. Department of Education this week. When President ...

Iceland’s relatively mild climate is shaped by a crucial network of currents that winds its away around the Atlantic Ocean transporting heat northward — without it, the island would be much icier and ...

Voters in Tennessee elected Republican Matt Van Epps to fill a vacant U.S. House of Representatives seat, U.S. media outlets projected on Tuesday, padding the narrow lead by President Donald Trump's ...

A supermoon — the closest such moon to the Earth this year — is wreaking havoc with ocean tides up and down the state's coast just as an atmospheric river storm moved through Northern California. The ...