Life on Sonsorol revolves around the reefs, and the children’s play teaches them many important skills.  Viewed from ...

IT’S THE BLUE OF HOT METAL against the damp blue of sky, a flutter in the white pine, a bright tatter high up. When it ...

Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Kiliii Yüyan brings to life stories from the Arctic sea ice, beneath the waves, ...

Deborah Madison is the author of multiple cookbooks, most recently Local Flavors, and the winner of the James Beard Award and the Julia Child Cookbook of the Year prize. She is a Slow Food convivia ...

IT MAKES SENSE THAT BLUE WHALES, the largest animal on Earth, would also be among the loudest. Their calls can reach up to 188 decibels. If they traveled through the air, above the surface of the ...

Remember, invasive species did not come along uninvited. The movement of non-native species is anthropogenic. Humans brought these plants and animals across land and sea, across borders and ecosystems ...

RIGHT HERE, RIGHT HERE, she sings, but I can no longer hear her words, her pacing, the shaping of each sound gliding past lips now gone. It’s been almost fifteen years since she ran out of air, died ...

WITH A HEART THE SIZE OF a piano tucked inside a two-hundred-ton body, the elusive blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest known animal to have ever inhabited Earth. If you are fortunate ...

"When I was growing up, right whales’ slow extinction felt like something I could grasp in a world where climate catastrophe felt too vast to hold." MY OBSESSION WITH WHALES began before I can really ...

When a man washes up on an island’s shore after an ocean storm leaves him shipwrecked, his first thought is to build a raft. All he can focus on is escape back to a world he knows. He is lost, angry, ...