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 ...

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 ...

Shining the Light on Baby Crabs In British Columbia, a monitoring project with light traps may illuminate the future of the prized crustaceans. by Spoorthy Raman April 25, 2023 | 4,200 words, about 21 ...

Uncovering that history required hands-on research. In 2003, after surveying the entire estuary, Greene pulled on her gumboots and set out with pin flags and a laser theodolite to take geolocations of ...

Experts estimate that one million tonnes of chemical weapons lie on the ocean floor—from Italy’s Bari harbor, where 230 sulfur mustard exposure cases have been reported since 1946, to the US east ...

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 Island That Humans Can’t Conquer A faraway island in Alaska has had its share of visitors, but none can remain for long on its shores. Text by Sarah Gilman Photos by Nathaniel Wilder October 6, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unsurprisingly, potential newcomers to the industry seem to be taking note. In some areas, like Maine and North Carolina, applications for oyster farms are on the rise. In most states, farmers ...

Share 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 ...