The Legal Fishery Sparking Arrests and Violence Canada has spent nearly 25 years ignoring its own Supreme Court—and Indigenous fishers on the East Coast are suffering the consequences. by Moira ...

When I was a teenager in the mid-1990s, I had a friend whose family owned an unimproved lot on Dabob Bay, a bay off a fjord nestled deep in the southern Salish Sea, in Washington State. My group of ...

The female beaver laying on a table in the exam room was nearly comatose, her whiskered face and nimble paws twitching with seizures. Bethany Groves, the attending wildlife veterinarian, had seen ...

When Deep-Sea Miners Come A-Courting As the Cook Islands embraces the burgeoning industry, deep-sea mining companies are becoming part of the community’s day-to-day. Can the country avoid the mistakes ...

Back when some of the first humans showed up in the Americas, far down in southern Chile near the coast, a small group of 20 or 30 built themselves a camp. It was in a warm and rich rainforest, in a ...

How to Love an Oyster The Pacific coast’s only native oyster is making a comeback, but it still needs a little help from its friends. by Brendan Borrell January 9, 2024 | 3,500 words, about 18 minutes ...

The Big Baltic Bomb Cleanup The ocean became a dumping ground for weapons after Allied forces defeated the Nazis. Now a team of robots and divers are making the Baltic Sea safer. by Paul Hockenos ...

Borbón first arrived in El Delgadito as a young man in 1980, and he returned seasonally for the fishing—lobster, sea bass, halibut, and clams. “ [Back then], mangroves were just branches that were in ...

They found the victims floating in the water. Some had eyeballs full of air bubbles, others had their stomachs pushed up into their mouths. Many had severe internal bleeding. Volcanoes can be ...

On a brisk August morning in Tasermiut Fjord, southern Greenland, I poke my head from the hatch of my family’s 13-meter sailboat to find frost on the deck and a cloudless sky. It’s weather that ...

A Step Forward in Stingray Science A California researcher and his team simulate stepping on round rays to learn more about how, why, and when the animals strike. by Katharine Gammon June 11, 2024 | 1 ...

In the Land of Lost Gardens Tireless in her quest, ethnobotanist Nancy Turner works with Indigenous elders to preserve plant knowledge dating back to the First People in the New World. by Heather ...