Share. Article body copy. Congratulations to Heather Pringle on winning a Canadian Archaeological Association (CAA) Public Communications Award for this article.. What I remember most about Jacques ...

As the Hercules cruised slowly along the seamount’s flank, Jensen spotted a bright-yellow octocoral—its soft frame studded with tiny eight-tentacled polyps—and asked Sandoval to collect it. She ...

If oyster populations do suffer, so would the ecology and economy of many regions worldwide, where oysters filter water, protect shorelines from storms, and, as a commercially grown species, provide ...

When I first see the canoe, in May, it takes a moment to distinguish the long, shapely slab of cedar from the patch of earth that has spent more than a century trying to reclaim it. Covered in moss ...

And so begins the world’s first kura reo taiao, which translates to ‘language school of the natural world.’For the next five days, we’ll sleep side by side on the floor of the meeting house, rising ...

The North Sea is a hard place to love. It’s not the cold, or the silty gray-brown waters that seem to suck the brightness out of the sky that make it unappealing, it’s what people have done to it over ...

I’m not surprised that people have turned to the intertidal for solace during times of crisis. Shellfishing elicits some of the most primal positive emotions of our species: the dopamine rush of ...

In the 20th century, people’s demand for whale blubber and baleen drove industrial whalers to kill roughly three million whales—a whopping 99 percent of the world’s whale population. The intensive ...

The Polynesian people first brought domesticated pigs to Hawai‘i over 1,000 years ago and maintained them in captivity. Conflict and social changes brought on by colonization and the privatization of ...

On a fall day in 2023, a juvenile Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross was lying listless in southeastern Brazil’s Santos Basin. Beach monitors found the young bird in the sand, weak and hypothermic. The ...

This is no small task. Mangroves used to line almost all of Ecuador’s coast, but shrimp companies have cut down over a quarter of them since the 1970s to make room for the saltwater pools they use to ...

Share. Article body copy. Plenty of families avoid certain topics of conversation. For Eduardo and his brother, work is off limits. “He has his job, and I have mine,” Eduardo says from the kitchen ...