Can We Really Be Friends with an Octopus? When octopuses are social, are they reaching out or simply reacting? by Ferris Jabr January 11, 2022 | 4,200 words, about 21 minutes This article is also ...

Caviar Pizzas, New Money, and the Death of an Ancient Fish Fancy fish eggs have become the latest luxury good to go viral on social media, raising questions about the future of sturgeon. by Paul ...

Over and over again, animals have dipped their toes in the ocean and stayed. Reptiles did it multiple times, becoming majestic sea dragons like the ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs. Whales are ...

Weird, Rare, and Everywhere In the bogs of Hecate Island, British Columbia, a writer and novice naturalist joins researchers for a glimpse of a multiyear biodiversity mission—and gets acquainted with ...

The Ingenious Ancient Technology Concealed in the Shallows Fish traps have a long history around the world, and a vast network in a Vancouver Island estuary reveals generations of ecological wisdom.

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 ...

The Trees That Sail to Sea In one of nature’s remarkable second acts, dead trees become driftwood and embark on transformative journeys. by Brian Payton February 6, 2018 | 3,500 words, about 18 ...

Honolulu: A Seabird’s Surprising Five-Star Destination The white tern—Manu-o-Kū—has excited ornithologists, its population growing within the busiest of Hawai‘i’s urban landscapes. Text by Joe Spring ...

The tale of a notorious fishing vessel shows just how difficult combating illegal activity at sea can be.

Blood in the Water, Food on the Table, Protesters on the Shore A centuries-old traditional whale hunt in the Faroe Islands remains in the crosshairs of animal rights activists. by Paige Cromley July 9 ...

Too Many Pinks in the Pacific Evidence is mounting that pink salmon, pumped by the billions into the North Pacific from fish hatcheries, are upending marine ecosystems. Text by Miranda Weiss Photos by ...

Botanists and community stewards from Auroville, Tamil Nadu, are using scattered patches of native forest as a blueprint to revive the tropical dry evergreen forest ecosystems of coastal India.