Multiple fire departments — including two that boated across the Great South Bay — responded Friday afternoon to an Ocean Beach blaze that collapsed a multimillion-dollar waterfront home and damaged two neighboring buildings.
“Freedom of the seas” was introduced as a legal principle among the war-torn nations of 17th-centuryEurope, as a direct result of their competition for control over the spice trade of the IndianOcean.
Slashing NOAA’s budget would weaken weather forecasting, disrupt fisheries management and stall ocean research — putting American lives, livelihoods and global scientific leadership at risk ....