Rachel Dobkin is a Newsweek reporter based in New York. Her focus is ... quickly pull them into the cold ocean waters, resulting in serious injury or death. Waves may also lift driftwood logs ...

Very close, it turns out. This month National Geographic’s newest experience, “Ocean Odyssey,” opens in Times Square in New York City, bringing visitors face-to-face with humpback whales ...

Barry Rosenthal started collecting plastic garbage on a New York shoreline ... shades of white—and their slow degradation by ocean waves, harsh sunlight, sand, and salt. Rosenthal created ...