Tundra Books It’s common for children to request their most beloved picture books on repeat. This counting book embraces this ...

Careful illumination helps showcase a bluebottle’s constituent bits, both above and below the water’s surface.

Francis “Bully” Mission Sr., president and founder of Mission Animal Control, is in a good mood when I meet him at a strip mall parking lot on the south side of the Hawaiian island of Kaua‘i. He and ...

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 ...

A sea cave on the northwest tip of Tonga’s Kapa Island is my favorite place on Earth. Nothing compares to freediving in the vibrant blue waters of Swallows Cave as beams of light and schools of fish ...

In the late Miocene epoch, roughly 5.9 million years ago, calamity befell the Mediterranean Sea. In a period of roughly 600,000 years, tectonic uplift sealed the gateway between Europe and North ...

Decades after they were hunted to local extinction, fin whales are recovering in the Kitimat fjord system—only to be threatened by a booming LNG industry.

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

Squeezed between the ocean and Cape Town’s urban sprawl, coastal caracals are the first felines to regularly dine on marine prey.

Using an app developed by Inuit in Nunavut, Indigenous communities from Alaska to Greenland are harnessing data to make their own decisions.

Researchers have long suspected that bowhead whales keep in touch from far away. New evidence of synchronized diving between two whales 100 kilometers apart supports the theory.