A massive environmental calamity rocked the ancient Mediterranean. It took millions of years for the ecosystem to recover.

The cave, a popular dive spot accessible only by boat, is about five meters deep and has a long vertical opening. Thousands ...

In Hawai‘i, people, pigs, and ecosystems only have so much room to coexist, and the pigs exist a little too much.

That’s what catches people unaware.” Checking the weather forecast doesn’t always help. In British Columbia, as in many ...

Our dungi, a six-meter-long dugout canoe, chugs mechanically along the western coastline of India’s North Andaman island. Saw Atto, a veteran shrimp fisher and the captain for this voyage, turns the ...

For many visitors to Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, their first glimpse of a giant tortoise is from the window of a bus or taxi driving across Santa Cruz Island, from the airport to the town of Puerto ...

On the Galapagos’ most developed island, researchers are tracking a growing threat to the millennia-old migration routes of giant tortoises.

On the Galapagos’ most developed island, researchers are tracking a growing threat to the millennia-old migration routes of giant tortoises.

Latex balloons designed to collect high-altitude data become a threat to marine animals after they burst—though the scale of their impact remains unknown.