Rightly or wrongly, technology has made the sport of fishing less of a guessing game and more like shooting the proverbial gill-bearing creatures in a barrel. Smartphone-connected fish finders and ...

An international team of researchers has found a clever way to draw fish to dying coral reefs — a discovery that could help restore the vulnerable ecosystems. For 40 nights, they played the sounds of ...

I’m a believer in connecting the dots, even if they are years apart. Two dots struck me this week, essays that argue for deep observation. One, written in the early 1870s, sounds eerily like another, ...

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