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The Republic of Cows
The floatplane bobs at the dock, its wing tips leaking fuel. I try not to take that as a sign that my trip to Chirikof Island is ill fated. Bad weather, rough seas, geographical isolation—visiting...
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Loose Lips Save Sunken Ships
The Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary is a busy place. Less than 35 kilometers offshore from Boston’s harbor, the waters are a rich fishing ground, a whale migration route, a shipping channel,...
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Detective McDavitt and the Curious Case of the Clown Wedgefish
Peter Kyne sits down at his desk to write a eulogy for a fish he’s never met. It’s summer 2019. No scientist has seen signs of the critically endangered Rhynchobatus cooki, or clown wedgefish, since a...
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The Sea Eagles That Returned to Mull
She comes winging in from behind us, looming into our field of vision, seeming almost too massive to be airborne. She is a white-tailed eagle, one of a species of sea eagles. Haliaeetus albicilla is a...
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In Defense of the Rat
There was a time when we human beings used to put animals on trial for their alleged crimes against us. The earliest of these prosecutions in the Western tradition of law appears to be a case against...
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The Details Are in the Devil’s Tumors
This article provides an update to the story “Devils Go to Prison,” published in 2015, which discusses how contagious cancers have ravaged the Tasmanian devil population and the efforts to control the...
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Extreme Heat Is Taking a Toll in This Florida Bay
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Summer afternoons on Florida Bay, located off the southern tip of Florida, are a wonder....
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The Legal Fishery Sparking Arrests and Violence
In the summer of 2000, Mi’kmaw fishers from Esgenoôpetitj, or Burnt Church First Nation, took to the waters of Miramichi Bay, in New Brunswick, each small boat carrying a cache of lobster traps. The...
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Texas Bets Big on Undersea Carbon Storage
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Over the last century, the State of Texas has reaped billions of dollars by...
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Rāhui and the Art of Marine Conservation
Located in a quiet part of Tahiti, in French Polynesia, the village of Tautira sits on the ocean’s edge, framed by black sand beaches and a turquoise lagoon. With a population of just over 2,500,...
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A Canadian University’s Curious Connection to the Titan Submersible Disaster
This story was originally published by The Walrus, a magazine that explores matters vital to Canadians, and is reproduced here with permission. On Sunday, June 18, a tourist submersible carrying five...
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The Naturalist and the Wonderful, Lovable, So Good, Very Bold Jay
A bird descends through the falling snow above the mountains of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Its plumage is a near perfect match of the leaden clouds above. About the size of an American robin,...
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Ten Coastal Kids’ Books Offer an Ocean of Adventure
When the woes of the world become too much, people often turn to books. They help us understand but also provide solace, distraction, or even humor in tough times. Books for children are no different....
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All the Fish We Cannot See
The ocean has a way of upending expectations. Four-story-high rogue waves peak and collapse without warning. Light bends across the surface to conjure chimeric cities that hover at the horizon. And...
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In the Face of Mounting Climate Risks, the Insurance Safety Net Is Falling Apart
This story was originally published by Grist, in partnership with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. “We’ve got ourselves a...
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Fighting for Wildlife in a Time of War
A livestock truck arrives on a wintry swath of grassland called the Tarutino Steppe in southern Ukraine. When the metal doors on the trailer swing open on this cold night, what emerges is not weaponry...
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California’s Central Valley Chinook Are Getting Lost on Their Way Home
This story was originally published by High Country News, a magazine about the American West’s environment and communities, and is reproduced here with permission. Picture yourself: a chinook salmon...
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How Terrestrial Turds Lead to Marine Maladies
Pádraig Duignan snaps on a pair of latex gloves in the Marine Mammal Center’s necropsy lab. Located north of San Francisco, California, the lab occupies a space behind a large metal garage door; the...
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How to Love an Oyster
He called it the Olympia And coined a word specific Describing the Olympia As simply “Oysteriffic” —Jay Bolster, “Ode to the Olympia Oyster” Most people, even those who know a thing or two about...
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The Secrets of the Sea Hidden High in the Andes
Villa de Leyva is a small scenic town in Colombia’s eastern branch of the Andes Mountains. In this town, home to over 24,000 people, most of the houses are painted white, with green wooden frames and...
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