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

The airborne water cycle, destabilized by industrial logging and other land use, may be a hidden force behind growing ...

In a dark, unexplored layer of ocean, a hidden cache of fish might play an unexpected role in our climate’s future. It seems like a bad time for a new fishery.

After scores of barn owls died in overheated nest boxes, conservationists set out to give the birds less heat-prone homes.

The ocean became a dumping ground for weapons after Allied forces defeated the Nazis. Now a team of robots and divers are making the Baltic Sea safer.

In the 1930s, artist Else Bostelmann illuminated in art what scientist William Beebe dictated to her from his cramped seat in a spherical steel bathysphere as it explored the deep sea off Bermuda. She ...

The adoption of ship scrubbers—technology meant to clean up dirty fuel—has caused a surge in heavy metal pollution.

Non-native pink salmon have swarmed Norway’s rivers, prompting a relentless—and potentially fruitless—fight to beat back the invaders.

Fishers organize their catch in their traditional dugout canoe, called a dungi, after a day of shrimp harvesting at Hara ...

In 1667, an apocalyptic earthquake almost destroyed Dubrovnik, one of the most beautiful medieval cities in the Mediterranean. Then the center of an independent republic, the city—on the eastern coast ...