Gieß den Kiez app shows trees in critical need of watering and can be adopted by other heat-stressed cities around the world

Maps and geography as a way to see the planet — a live 3D wind globe, short-form map reels, and writing about winds, currents, terrain, borders, and the shapes underneath the numbers.

No sailing experience required.

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Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather

Coverage levels fall a million square kilometres short of the long-term average, with global heating likely driving losses

A survivor of the shipwreck that inspired the novel Moby Dick had a theory about how a sperm whale could destroy a vessel many times its size – 200 years later, he's been proved right.

Spread across thousands of ordinary homes, Vermont's virtual power plant has become its largest power source. It's protecting owners from outages and providing cheaper, cleaner energy.

Weathered wooden beams possibly from a 19th-century shipwreck have emerged from the sand along Nantucket’s southern shore after a powerful nor’easter battered the island.

So you think unboxing a new Fendi Baguette bag is a thrill?

A teenager struggling with climate anxiety searches for hope in an unexpected place – writing letters to imprisoned activists. Max, 14, is on a quest to understand the human stories behind direct acti...

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The Londoner is the set designer big names turn to for eye-popping spectacle. As a new retrospective opens, she gives the Guardian a glimpse at her studio

(A historical marker located in New London in Southeastern Region, Connecticut.)

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France’s offer to the American people was a point made on a colossal scale, and world leaders’ exchange of tokens remains a complex art

Outgoing secretary Lonnie Bunch rejects claims the institution is unpatriotic, telling audience ‘You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners’

Courtesy of Claire Hlotyak '27 If a Connecticut College student should find spare time in their day to take a walk through South campus and past Freeman Field, they will eventually hit a slice of New ...

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LCN Seafood AcademyAbout the SeriesThe Local Catch Network is launching a new series of webinars, events, and workshops built for community-based seafood businesses. The Seafood Academy series is tail...

Photographers from all over the world entered more than 24,000 images into the world’s largest bird photography competition, with an image of a northern gannet bursting through the ocean’s surface tak...

Scientists have new proof that Thomas Jefferson had children with his enslaved chambermaid Sally Hemings—and that their bloodline endures across the country.

Long before GPS, lighthouses had been guiding sailors home for centuries. Their rotating lights use certain patterns to help ships navigate to shore.

How the photographer’s journey tracking down views from 19th century photographs altered the writer’s understanding of space and time.

Albert Bierstadt’s twin paintings of the disappearing American bison became part of the movement to save the animal from extinction.

Email from New London Maritime Society New London Maritime Society weekly update -- September 20, 2026 We understood the smaller watercolor in the photo, above, which is in the NLMS collection, was th

Glaciers are not supposed to stop moving, but in 2014 one did. Miles Ellingham travels to Iceland to see it and meet the activist who believes its death should shock us into taking action

The behaviours we observed could represent grief, but they could also reflect maternal attachment, confusion or instinctive caregiving

After Jennifer Sellitti lost her partner Joe Mazraani, she thought everything was over. Then she inherited his ship

Chirag Bahri was working on board a tanker when six men seized it. For almost eight months, he and his colleagues were held captive, an experience that would change his life for ever

But their habitat is threatened by bottom trawling in the region and Trump’s plan to expand seafloor mining

A bloated ballroom, a six-storey military HQ, a helipad-cum-cocktail patio, a gilded angel on a giant arch honouring himself … our architecture critic deplores the decorator-in-chief’s mutilation of W...

From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade

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The United States Postal Service (USPS) is commemorating a special anniversary for a service academy based right here in Connecticut.

Findings on decline of species such as Arctic tern and turtle dove published alongside flyways pledge at Kenya summit

Quiver Distribution has acquired North American distribution rights to the feature take of the Eugene O'Neill play, Long Day's Journey Into Night which stars 2x Oscar winner Jessica Lange reprising he...

The country is one of just three that still permits commercial whaling, while its government has faced mounting pressure to ban the practice

The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection will now decide how much the Waterford park will receive.

“​​I leave with pride and sadness,” said the institution’s secretary, pledging to continue fighting to “protect the integrity of the Smithsonian.”