Hurricane Helene devastated the southeastern United States at the end of September 2024, dumping unprecedented levels of rain ...

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

From January to May each year, Qeqertarsuaq Tunua, a large bay on Greenland’s west coast, teems with plankton. Baleen whales come to feast on the bounty, and in 2010, two bowhead whales entered the ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

“Calm down,” I told myself as I bobbed in the water off D’Arros Island, within a newly established marine protected area (MPA) in Seychelles. A storm was approaching, but I was snorkeling—camera in ...

Off the tropical islands of Palau, a photographer encountered the looming wreck of a Second World War seaplane known as Jake.

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

As the climate warms, popular coastal tourist haunts across Europe will be hit hard by extreme weather.