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 ...

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 ...

The Unique Language of Newfoundland Isolated in the North Atlantic, the people of Newfoundland and Labrador developed a subtle and beautiful lexicon to describe their environment. by Emily Urquhart ...

Alaskans Have Been Photographing This Volkswagen Beetle–Sized Boulder for 33 Years In 1990, a scientist began visually documenting Prince William Sound’s recovery from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. When ...

Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal is About to Go Big Following its Singaporean pilot project, carbon sequestration start-up Equatic aims to build a massive plant in Quebec. by Ramin Skibba October 7, 2024 ...

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 ...

Unearthing the Original Mediterranean Diet Archaeologist Dimitra Mylona’s odyssey to reveal the Mediterranean Sea’s lost bounty. by Paul Greenberg December 13, 2022 | 3,200 words, about 16 minutes ...

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, ...