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 ...

Light Pollution Is Causing Oyster Insomnia Even artificial light that’s dimmer than the full moon can knock oysters’ circadian rhythms out of sync. by Hannah Seo September 6, 2023 | 700 words, about 3 ...

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 ...

Weather Forecasting Is Deadly for Marine Wildlife Latex balloons designed to collect high-altitude data become a threat to marine animals after they burst—though the scale of their impact remains ...

Migrating Seabirds Are Bringing Forever Chemicals into the Arctic New research shows how toxic chemicals hitch a ride with seabirds flying from southern latitudes to the Arctic. by William von Herff ...

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 ...

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, ...