A few years ago, Kelly Brown, a Haíłzaqv (Heiltsuk) community member from a village on the central coast of British Columbia, was out exploring his homelands with an elder when they came across the ...

The Power of Compassion Why humpback whales rescue seals and why volunteering for beach cleanups improves your health. by Elin Kelsey August 15, 2017 | 2,200 words, about 11 minutes This article is ...

The Tlingit and Haida were especially renowned canoe carvers, in part because they so relied on them, and in part because they had access to arguably the best trees of all the coastal tribes of the ...

To Speak the Language of the Land Māori people are reclaiming their native language, even in the face of growing threats to the natural world on which it depends. Text by Nic Low Photos by Te ...

By mapping the prehistoric land beneath the seabed and pioneering techniques for finding artifacts, Gaffney is also opening up the world’s other submerged continental shelves to remote archaeological ...

I’m not surprised that people have turned to the intertidal for solace during times of crisis. Shellfishing elicits some of the most primal positive emotions of our species: the dopamine rush of ...

Crafting the Perfect Poo Scientists are working to emulate whale waste, which they say could fertilize the ocean and sequester carbon. by Sandy Ong November 8, 2024 | 1,200 words, about 6 minutes ...

Acetes shrimp, known locally as bhusi jhinga, aggregate in nearshore waters along India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands from early September to the end of December each year. Atto and Taka are one of ...

Lately, though, the tranquility of this routine has been shattered. Ruiz has been a cangrejero for more than 20 years, and in that time, he and his fellow crabbers have overcome pirates, unforgiving ...

For the First Time, Part of the Ocean Has Been Granted Legal Personhood By affording rights to its iconic waves, a Brazilian city is paving a new path to marine protection. by Isabella Kaminski ...

Kristin Nowell, a conservationist from the United States who has combated endangered-species trafficking for decades and founded the vaquita-protection charity Cetacean Action Treasury (CAT) in 2020, ...

Artificial Intelligence Could Soon Turn Anyone into an Expert Tracker Scientists are working on a machine learning tool that could, one day, identify individual animals from photographs of their ...