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, ...

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 ...

What was your last memorable animal encounter? As I watched a group of mountain gorillas in Rwanda, a huge male crashed through the bamboo grove and sat down right beside me. He leaned his immense ...

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 ...

INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ARTIST and ocean advocate Courtney Mattison handcrafts intricate, large-scale ceramic sculptural works that visualize climate change through the fragile beauty of marine ...

A WHIR OF JAZZ spins from the windowsill. For a minute, the muffled reverberation doesn’t register, my mind sifting it into the song that plays from the radio in my home office. When the erratic tempo ...

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, ...

"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 ...

"If you want to see a whale you won’t." ...