The young scientist gripping the wheel of a motorboat slicing through the ocean waves has the last name Suraci—Icarus spelled backward. It’s another scientist onboard who points this out. Michael ...

This article was originally published in High Country News, a magazine about the western United States’ environment and communities, and is republished here with permission. Read more stories like ...

When Stefanie Gazda landed on a remote Florida island to study dolphins, she felt out of her depth. She’d never led a research project before, and had little experience with marine mammals. She had to ...

Watch the recording of our webinar “Mental Health in the Fishing Community” for more on this topic. In 2005, Randy Cushman spent two days trolling through the Gulf of Maine, searching for Gary ...

One autumn afternoon in 1993, Amy Simon’s mother brought home a VHS tape of Free Willy, the boy-meets-whale tale that became a sleeper hit across North America that summer. Living in the tiny ...

The Cook Islands’ main harbor is a small indentation in the island of Rarotonga, which is the most developed of the nation’s 15 islands, yet still the kind of place where you give directions in mango ...

The neatness, the orderliness, the sheer scientific preciseness of the death lying at our feet is impressive. It is a sunny spring day near the mouth of the Big Qualicum River on British Columbia’s ...

It’s a blustery day in the autumn of 2023, and I’m standing in a roadside pullout in Northern California, looking at the past and future of the Klamath River. Immediately upstream I see Iron Gate ...

It was a cool spring morning on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island when the ground began to buckle and heave. On the Richter scale, the earthquake reached a magnitude of 7.3 at a place called ...

What does it mean to harvest and eat a so-called local food? I thought I’d done it the time I picked and ate several tubs of blueberries from a farm about 15 kilometers from my house in Seattle, ...

When Culum Brown was a young boy, he and his grandmother frequented a park near her home in Melbourne, Australia. He was fascinated by the park’s large ornamental pond wriggling with goldfish, ...

The Atlantis resort in the Bahamas is an imposing place. It sits just north of downtown Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, on its own little stretch of sand dubbed Paradise Island. The main building ...