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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

On the Galapagos’ most developed island, researchers are tracking a growing threat to the millennia-old migration routes of giant tortoises.

It took a mountain of data to shake off the skeptics and rewrite the history of human migrations, but archaeologist Tom Dillehay was always interested in so much more than an argument.

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