On the Galapagos’ most developed island, researchers are tracking a growing threat to the millennia-old migration routes of giant tortoises.

The airborne water cycle, destabilized by industrial logging and other land use, may be a hidden force behind growing ...

Fishers organize their catch in their traditional dugout canoe, called a dungi, after a day of shrimp harvesting at Hara ...

As the climate warms, popular coastal tourist haunts across Europe will be hit hard by extreme weather.

The adoption of ship scrubbers—technology meant to clean up dirty fuel—has caused a surge in heavy metal pollution.

In 1667, an apocalyptic earthquake almost destroyed Dubrovnik, one of the most beautiful medieval cities in the Mediterranean. Then the center of an independent republic, the city—on the eastern coast ...

“Calm down,” I told myself as I bobbed in the water off D’Arros Island, within a newly established marine protected area (MPA) in Seychelles. A storm was approaching, but I was snorkeling—camera in ...

The Canadian government and the Ehattesaht First Nation dropped a huge chunk of change trying to save the stranded killer whale kʷiisaḥiʔis (Brave Little Hunter). Now, they’re wondering how to make up ...

Researchers have long suspected that bowhead whales keep in touch from far away. New evidence of synchronized diving between two whales 100 kilometers apart supports the theory.