Everybody has their favorite places to beachcomb along the Ocean State’s 400-plus miles of coast. Here are a few that are ...

The prime ministers of two small island nations that face ongoing impacts from rising sea levels will appear at legal hearings at an international court in Hamburg, Germany, on Monday, and seek an ...

A view of Red Rock Island, on San Francisco Bay, as seen from a sea kayak on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. Charles Russo/SFGATE By Tessa McLean , California Editor Updated Feb 22, 2023 10:39 a.m.

Small island developing states are seeking a legal ‘advisory opinion’ from an international tribunal on whether climate change falls under the international law of the sea.

Arguments will revolve around the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the legal framework that covers uses of the oceans and their resources, including the obligation to protect ...

A remote outpost of the Philippines in the South China Sea is on the front line of potential geopolitical conflict. On Thitu, a tiny dot of coral reef and palm trees in the South China Sea about ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) - Rock Island Police Chief Timothy McCloud says the abduction of a 4-year-old girl from Rock Island was an “intentional deception.“. She was in her own home the entire ...

Under the Homestead Act of 1862, squatters took possession of millions of free acres of land in the West, but now there is not much worthwhile public land available. A few years ago, a Louisiana ...

The prime ministers of two small island nations that face ongoing impacts from rising sea levels will appear at legal hearings at an international court in Hamburg, Germany, on Monday, and seek an ...