There’s a certain type of person you’ve probably encountered in grade school. Perhaps you were this person yourself. This was the person who didn’t just like to read — reading was part of their ...

Pacific Park’s mighty Sea Dragon comes to life in the pages of the new children’s book Stella Rose and the Sea Dragon, now on sale at local bookstores and online retailers. James Harris, Santa Monica ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and celebrate the amazing ability of the Irish to tell a good story for the IrishCentral Book Club. Described as both ...

When the marine biologist Rachel Carson was a young girl, she discovered a fossilized shell while hiking around her family’s hillside property in Springdale, Pennsylvania. Those who knew her then ...

Above: An excellent example of a well-managed strategic retreat from the coast occurred in 1999, when the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse on North Carolina’s Outer Banks was moved 2,900 feet back from an ...

In the preface to his masterful account of human history as shaped by the oceans, Cambridge Professor David Abulafia reminds us that the seas around us “account for something like 70% of the world’s ...

In California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline, Rosanna Xia, an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times, writes: “When talking about climate change solutions, most actions ...

Two new books, Edith Widder’s “Below the Edge of Darkness” and Helen Scales’s “The Brilliant Abyss,” explore the darkest reaches and all that glows there. By Robert Moor In the deep sea, it is always ...

Stormy Sea Breaking on a Shore, by J.M.W. Turner. (Heritage Art / Heritage Images via Getty Images) Rachel Carson was a passionate and poetic writer, but she was not a particularly subtle one. When ...

One hundred thousand years ago, a human cousin walked a rock- ribbed beach along the Mediterranean Sea, her head lowered and her large eyes scanning the shoreline. Now and again she stopped, bent her ...