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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Social Cost of Carbon Credits Multinational companies funded a US $4.4-million carbon offset project. Senegalese locals did much of the work—and saw almost none of the money. by Jack Thompson July ...

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 ...

Bats of the Midnight Sun Active in daylight during the Arctic summer and hibernating during the long winter nights, Alaska’s little brown bats are a unique population. Can their niche lives help them ...

More than one-quarter of the world’s marine mammal species are already listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as threatened with extinction. Various factors are to blame, ...

The Naturalist and the Wonderful, Lovable, So Good, Very Bold Jay Canada jays thrive in the cold. The life’s work of one biologist gives us clues as to how they’ll fare in a hotter world. by Brian ...

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 ...

What Whale Barnacles Know For generations, these hitchhikers have been recording details about their hosts and their ocean home. by Mara Grunbaum November 9, 2021 | 4,400 words, about 22 minutes This ...