Ireland has a distinguished place in the world of cartography, and old maps can instructively freeze-frame a timespan. They are not merely works of art but windows into history, and this overview ...

SYDNEY-Off the coast of Australia are clusters of gas and oil rigs dating back to the 1960s – part of the country’s transformation into a global resources giant. But many of these rigs are now coming ...

Sylvan Esso's Nick Sanborn and Amelia Meath at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Photo by Angelica Edwards. Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn are ready to recharge. For the Sylvan Esso duo, years of back-to ...

For generations, offshore giants have powered Australian homes and industry. But today many of these giants are dying, and a dispute is growing over how the millions of tonnes of industrial detritus ...

Motorists can pay more than £20 extra to fill up their cars depending on which petrol station they visit, according to the first-ever official forecourt figures. The government’s competition watchdog ...

Electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso already have a full summer schedule as they gear up to kick off their No Rules Tour, kicking off in June. The pair—consisting of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn —are ...

Ever heard of a place called Keith in the Berkshires? Hint: It’s in Great Barrington. Is Keith a wood or forest, from the Celtic word? A geologic formation? A ghost hamlet? A souvenir left by a ...

Ministers have called on people to stop “panic-buying” petrol and return to their normal pattern of purchasing as pumps run dry in some forecourts across the capital. How can I find out where is the ...

A deal by Imperial Oil Ltd. to sell its remaining 497 corporate Esso retail stations for $2.8 billion will translate into more 7-Eleven convenience stores in Alberta and British Columbia. Irving, ...

Unfold a 1944 map of San Diego County by the Automobile Club of Southern California and look for Lindbergh Field, the port, Point Loma’s Naval Training Center or Marine Corps Depot. You won’t find ...

Up until the 1990s, many maps of New York situated the tiny town of Agloe just north of Roscoe in the Catskill Mountains. The problem? Agloe, New York, was almost entirely fictitious, although it ...