In August 1926, American champion swimmer Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel, completing the 21-mile feat in 14 hours and 34 minutes—a record that would stand ...

After quitting her corporate job in New York City, one woman is spending a year traveling solo through 12 countries Nikki Vontaya/TikTok Nikki Vontaya had been living in New York City for eight years ...

For Zanzibar’s semi-autonomous government, seaweed sits at the heart of its “blue economy” agenda — a plan to grow prosperity ...

Sue Kim’s documentary provides a lively look at an aging-out — yet active — community of traditional female marine-life harvesters on Jeju Island. Considering themselves “guardians of the sea,” ...

Everyone loves a good Cinderella story, especially The Walt Disney Company, and Joachim Rønning’s “Young Woman and the Sea” is a textbook example. That’s not just because the movie tells the story of ...

There was a time when Disney made ideal family movies that weren’t animated, or live action reboots of animated films. In fact, there was a time when Walt Disney would take on original live action ...

The documentary produced by Malala Yousafzai details how our changing environment impacts a dwindling group of woman in South Korea. On Jeju Island in South Korea, there are real-life mermaids. A ...

There’s something reassuringly retrograde about Disney taking a break from special-effects spectaculars to release “Young Woman and the Sea,” a theatrical feature about a feisty New Yorker trying to ...