They didn’t think much of the first dead whale. Dwarfed by the rugged cliffs of Patagonia’s high green fjords, the team of biologists had sailed into a gulf off the Pacific Ocean searching for the ...

Stories about declining species have become all too common. But what about when an animal comes back from the brink? It’s welcome news for conservationists, of course. But the return of a species can ...

To escape rising ocean temperatures and marine heatwaves, many fish species are heading for cooler waters near the poles. But salmon farmed in marine enclosures don’t have that option. To help salmon ...

Nestled along Central Africa’s Atlantic coast, Gabon is home to some of the continent’s most biodiverse rainforests. Hippos are even known to surf ocean waves. But as Gabon prepares for a hydropower ...

Given how much work it takes to raise a child, it’s not surprising some animals have evolved ways of getting out of it. Around one percent of bird species, for instance, lay their eggs in the nests of ...

As he visualized paddling along the east coast of Greenland in an umiak, Danish explorer Gustav Holm held in his hand generations of navigational know-how. It was the 1880s—long before Siri and ...

Casey Jones was a broken-hearted bachelor when he discovered another love that would change his life. The hazmat truck driver and avid Florida Gators football fan had moved close to the beach four ...

This spring, two striking things happened in the United States: one on land, the other at sea. On land, farmers planted a record area of soybeans—almost 2.5 million hectares (about the size of ...