The Audacious Scheme to Reroute India’s Water Scientists are watching with concern as India prepares to break ground on a long-delayed plan to connect the country’s rivers. by Sushmita Pathak June 20, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Other Side of the World’s Largest Dam Removal Removing dams from the Klamath River in Northern California seems like a clear win for fish and rivers. Why do some locals hate it? by J.B. MacKinnon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

“We usually have black bears,” Ellis explains, “and when we don’t see many black bears we know there might be a grizzly around.” Locals warned each other to avoid the estuary and expressed concerns ...