The Whale Dying on the Mountain As the Comox Glacier disappears so does part of the local culture. by J.B. MacKinnon February 16, 2016 | 3,700 words, about 18 minutes This article is also available in ...

Guilt-Free on the Sea? How Norway is using oil and gas riches to engineer a future in emission-free seafaring. by Paul Hockenos September 18, 2018 | 2,900 words, about 15 minutes This article is also ...

Making a Marsh out of a Mud Pile In San Francisco Bay, scientists are looking for a better way to rebuild flagging marshland. by Erica Gies April 10, 2024 | 900 words, about 4 minutes The water in ...

The Canoe in the Forest An unfinished boat hidden on a remote island in Alaska illuminates a missing chapter in the history of traditional Haida and Tlingit canoe building by Joshua Hunt December 19, ...

Māori people are reclaiming their native language, even in the face of growing threats to the natural world on which it depends.

Conjuring the Lost Land Beneath the North Sea New research reveals that Doggerland—a sunken swath of Europe connecting Britain to the mainland—was more than a simple thoroughfare. It was home. by ...

The ocean became a dumping ground for weapons after Allied forces defeated the Nazis. Now a team of robots and divers are making the Baltic Sea safer.

It took a mountain of data to shake off the skeptics and rewrite the history of human migrations, but archaeologist Tom Dillehay was always interested in so much more than an argument.

The Very Hungry Urchins Researchers are restoring the Caribbean’s surprising, spiky custodians, which gobble up the algae smothering coral reefs. by Lisa S. Gardiner July 30, 2024 | 1,900 words, about ...

Multinational companies funded a US $4.4-million carbon offset project. Senegalese locals did much of the work—and saw almost none of the money.

Weapons of War Litter the Ocean Floor At least one million tonnes of chemical weapons were dumped in the oceans between 1919 and 1980. Now what? by Andrew Curry November 10, 2016 | 3,000 words, about ...

Saving a Sea Monkey Sanctuary As the Great Salt Lake in Utah shrinks, locals are working to preserve its critical brine shrimp fishery—along with the other entities that flourish in the lake’s strange ...