“Calm down,” I told myself as I bobbed in the water off D’Arros Island, within a newly established marine protected area (MPA ...

On the Pacific Northwest coast—and around the world—community archaeology is helping people reconcile with each other and ...

Researchers have long suspected that bowhead whales keep in touch from far away. New evidence of synchronized diving between ...

Seabirds are among the most threatened bird groups in the world, with nearly one-third at risk of extinction. In a new study, ...

The ocean feels infinite. If you were to start swimming from shore, it’s easy to believe—fitness and oxygen aside—you could continue forever. That’s a far different experience to overland travel, ...

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 ...

Now that it’s spread rapidly around the globe and jumped to animals such as foxes, sea lions, and cows, scientists worry that the avian flu could spill over to humans.

Aboard the Alkor, a 55-meter oceanographic vessel anchored in the Baltic Sea several kilometers from the German port city of Kiel, engineer Henrik Schönheit grips a joystick-like lever in his fist. He ...