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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ARTIST and ocean advocate Courtney Mattison handcrafts intricate, large-scale ceramic sculptural works that visualize climate change through the fragile beauty of marine ...

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 ...

IN THE EARLY 2000S, Free Willy played on repeat in our Baltimore home. My toddler sons would stand on the steps of the TV room, arms pumped overhead, striking the dramatic pose of Jesse the kid ...

TWO GRAY WHALES SWAM CLOSE to the westernmost edge of Cape Lookout, a narrow headland that juts out nearly two miles into the Pacific on the northern Oregon Coast. I peered down from a ...