They went extinct 66 million years ago. But the more interesting question is why? | Continue reading
In the crush of conservation priorities, scientists grapple with how to help an endangered species with no obvious value. | Continue reading
The human fascination with hiding military messages in whale and dolphin sounds has led to US military Cold War experiments and modern Chinese research. | Continue reading
A stealthy source of pollution leaves the highway in astonishing amounts and heads to sea, toxic chemicals and all. | Continue reading
What to do with hundreds of thousands of tonnes of contaminated water? | Continue reading
A faraway island in Alaska has had its share of visitors, but none can remain for long on its shores. | Continue reading
Space weather may have played a small role in the famed steamer’s sinking. | Continue reading
Researchers may have finally found evidence for sleep in sharks. | Continue reading
Bluefin tuna are a luxury that feeds the egos of many, the bellies of few. Inside a Canadian fishery that pursues them. | Continue reading
For marine mammals, viral and bacterial outbreaks are on the rise. | Continue reading
Humpbacks are some of the most watched whales in the world, and yet so much of their lives remains a mystery. | Continue reading
A California team uses science to predict the risk of whale entanglements and shut down the Dungeness crab industry when necessary in “near real time.” | Continue reading
Searching for a solution has its ups and downs. | Continue reading
The island of Borneo is the only home of the proboscis monkey, an endangered primate that is surprisingly resilient. | Continue reading
Fish skin leather was once common in fishing communities; now artisans and designers are breathing new life into the tradition. | Continue reading
It’s locals versus industry in the country’s kelp wars. | Continue reading
The discovery of a legendary, lost shipwreck in North America has pitted treasure hunters and archaeologists against each other, raising questions about who should control sunken riches. | Continue reading
The discovery of a legendary, lost shipwreck in North America has pitted treasure hunters and archaeologists against each other, raising questions about who should control sunken riches. | Continue reading
For years, animal rights advocates have waged war against the US Navy for its use of dolphins in warfare and research. Is a resolution possible? | Continue reading
A company wants to take urchins from the wild, then fatten them up for sale. | Continue reading
More and bigger cruise ships are crowding coastal destinations. When is enough, enough? Who gets to decide? | Continue reading
A tiny Alaskan island faces a threat as deadly as an oil spill—rats. | Continue reading
Alex MacLean’s aerial images of the US East Coast convey just how much infrastructure perches in the coastal danger zone. | Continue reading
Miriam Ritchie and her troop of terriers help battle invasive species on New Zealand’s small coastal islands. | Continue reading
Sampling efforts show that in the Baltic Sea, the concentration of radioactive cesium-137 in the water should return to baseline levels by 2023. | Continue reading
Our global food system discards 46 million tonnes of fish each year. Why? | Continue reading
For 35 years, a scientist and his team have been taking the pulse of 10 coastal glaciers. The diagnosis is in. | Continue reading
A detective’s quest reveals how one idealistic fisheries observer may have collided with criminals and desperate migrants—and paid for it with his life. | Continue reading
Can the small Hawaiian island of Moloka‘i and its utility get along well enough to teach the rest of the world how to get off fossil-fueled electricity? | Continue reading
This year in Alaska, an abnormal rise in temperature has, like in much of the north, disrupted isolated communities, upset subsistence hunting patterns, and even led to some deaths. | Continue reading
In Seattle, Singapore, and other waterfront cities around the world, engineers are creating life-enhancing designs to encourage marine biodiversity. | Continue reading
Vast complexes of floating rafts would support apartment buildings on the sea. | Continue reading
Sea turtle excluder devices are simple. Getting them adopted is anything but. | Continue reading
An ocher painting of a ship from the early 18th century serves as a visual reminder of the clash between indigenous peoples and settlers. | Continue reading
Inuit in Canada and Greenland want to protect an ecological wonder—a massive Arctic polynya—at the center of their world. | Continue reading
It’s dangerous to blame the decline of one species on a single predator. We humans like to do it anyway. | Continue reading
It is one of the modern world’s biggest mysteries—99 percent of the plastics that enter the ocean are missing. | Continue reading
On Vancouver Island, karst researchers hustle to save one of Earth’s most underappreciated—and fragile—ecosystems: an ecosystem hidden in plain sight. | Continue reading
Originally built as a gateway to space colonization, Biosphere 2 has a new purpose: to breed supercorals strong enough to survive swiftly changing seas. First, scientists must revive the simulated ocean. | Continue reading
The cleaner wrasse appears to have passed the mirror test—a standard test of self-recognition. If the finding holds, this humble fish will join a very exclusive club. | Continue reading
Urban beaches around the world have less garbage than remote beaches, but less life too. The City of Santa Monica hopes to change the image of a clean beach. | Continue reading
String is far more important than the wheel in the pantheon of inventions. | Continue reading
Hawaii’s outlaw hippies are more Lost Boys than a signpost to a future post-consumer society. | Continue reading