Life on Sonsorol revolves around the reefs, and the children’s play teaches them many important skills.  Viewed from ...

IT’S THE BLUE OF HOT METAL against the damp blue of sky, a flutter in the white pine, a bright tatter high up. When it ...

Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Kiliii Yüyan brings to life stories from the Arctic sea ice, beneath the waves, ...

What was your last memorable animal encounter? As I watched a group of mountain gorillas in Rwanda, a huge male crashed through the bamboo grove and sat down right beside me. He leaned his immense ...

A WHIR OF JAZZ spins from the windowsill. For a minute, the muffled reverberation doesn’t register, my mind sifting it into the song that plays from the radio in my home office. When the erratic tempo ...

"If you want to see a whale you won’t." ...

WITH A HEART THE SIZE OF a piano tucked inside a two-hundred-ton body, the elusive blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest known animal to have ever inhabited Earth. If you are fortunate ...

RIGHT HERE, RIGHT HERE, she sings, but I can no longer hear her words, her pacing, the shaping of each sound gliding past lips now gone. It’s been almost fifteen years since she ran out of air, died ...

I need most, less grief or greater patience. I tabulate the facts we’re learning: when a large whale dies, it sinks, creates what’s called a whale fall, its body becoming a deep-sea ecology that can ...

IN THE SUMMER OF 2010, as we prepared for our voyage from Malta to Singapore, it was impossible to ignore international headlines. Pirate activity in the southernmost Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and ...