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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Conservation takes cash, and philanthropic funding is notoriously fickle. To secure the future of its environmental efforts, this Dominican nonprofit is trying something new: making booze.

A new study estimates how much microplastic is sprinkled into your food and the air.

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.

One Great Shot: Are You Ready for This, Jelly? During a nighttime dive, a veteran underwater photographer captured a tiny fish’s cunning effort to find a safe spot in a dark sea.