Britannia rules the waves
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Britain will be celebrating its relationship with the sea with an exciting, year-long programme of events next year under the banner of SeaBritain 2005.
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Arts & entertainment: Epic trilogy Coast of Utopia sets new record at Tony Awards, rounding off a Broadway season in which British imports continued to dominate.
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Since ancient times poets have revered the power of the seas. Now energy companies and coastal cities like New York and San Francisco are aiming to tap ocean waves and tidal currents as abundant sources of electricity.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  May 26--Mother Nature is a relentless force, and nowhere is that better displayed than along North Carolina's coast. Wind and surf tirelessly reshape the islands, or try to, with little mere mortals can do to stop them.
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Upraised noses, outstretched arms and a trip across the pond.
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Various parts of the UK, particularly Scotland and Northern Ireland, are set to be hit by strong winds.
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On a day of shifting winds and swelling waves, the challenger from New Zealand took the lead in the America's Cup yesterday in a classic race in which it beat defending champion Alinghi and nearly lost a crew member overboard.
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America's Cup challenger New Zealand lost two tests at sea yesterday. First it could not control its own sails. Then it was defeated by defending champion Alinghi.
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The best oceanographers in the world never studied at a university. Yet they know how to navigate expertly along oceanic fronts, the invisible boundaries between waters of different temperatures and densities.
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By TOM COX  SALT    By Jeremy Page    VIKING, [pound]14.99   Flat it is, but north-west East Anglia can spark a surprisingly rugged imagination.
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By ROBIN GAULDIE  WHEN the Aga Khan bought up a vast stretch of bleak, sunblasted Sardinian coastline in the 1960s, he turned the Costa Smeralda into a byword for floating gin palaces and exclusive hotels.   But it only takes a quick peek to explode that old myth.
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Science & environment: The Arctic's sea covering has shrunk so much that the Northwest Passage, the fabled sea route that connects Europe and Asia, has opened up for the first time since records began.
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During mid-tide, the volume of water thundering through Nova Scotia&#39;s Minas Channel in the Bay of Fundy exceeds the flow from every river and stream on Earth.
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By Lee Tolliver, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 10--Wes Laine is hoping the surf gods look favorably on him.   Laine is in California for the Quiksilver Surf Shop Challenge Championships.   Competition begins Monday.
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Un britannico dipendente dell'Ue e un irlandese dell'Onu
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Capt. Christopher Rynd has the last word on everything that happens on the Queen Mary 2, the world's largest ocean liner. He's even empowered to arrest unruly passengers.
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A changing climate is forcing some of Britain's less heralded marine lifeforms to move, research shows.