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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Had he glanced over his shoulder just before the “great fish” swallowed him, biblical Jonah would have had an enviable view. Enviable, that is, if you’re Alex Werth, a landlocked biologist who studies ...

A Step Forward in Stingray Science A California researcher and his team simulate stepping on round rays to learn more about how, why, and when the animals strike. by Katharine Gammon June 11, 2024 | 1 ...

In the Land of Lost Gardens Tireless in her quest, ethnobotanist Nancy Turner works with Indigenous elders to preserve plant knowledge dating back to the First People in the New World. by Heather ...

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 ...

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 ...