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Evacuations are under way in parts of North Carolina, where Hurricane Arthur threatens to drench coastal areas today. The National Hurricane Center upgraded the storm to a hurricane early this morning.

A large swath of the Atlantic Ocean could soon be used to generate electricity, as a U.S. agency proposes opening more than 1,000 square miles of ocean to wind energy projects.

Yakutat lodge residents, employees try to remember July 1996 death of Sandra Perry

The new guidelines address the fact that different marine mammals hear noise differently.

Conservators working to preserve artifacts from the early days of Antarctic exploration have uncovered century-old black-and-white negatives taken during Ernest Shackleton’s 1914-1917 expedition but never printed.

Early on, the Internet settled on Google as a likely culprit. Could the barges off of San Francisco and Maine, the masses divined, be giant data structures built to circumvent NSA spying? Could they be huge, floating stores?

The effort to shift the luxury cruise ship Consta Concordia into an upright position has begun and several news outlets are streaming their coverage of what’s said to be the biggest such operation of its kind ever.

Residents evacuated from their homes on Puget Sound’s scenic Whidbey Island are waiting for a green light from geologists and engineers after a large landslide knocked a house off its foundation and threatened to damage several others.