Three Alaska Native tribes are challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ recent approval of a gold mining project that would bring industrial suction dredging — a mining technique used to extract ...

The whales are now headed north. In just the last two weeks, three gray whales have died in San Francisco Bay, one of which ...

The Americas explores the life and death of the giant Pacific octopus. If you know where and how to look, you can find the ...

Caroline Collins looks at such people as mariners, explorers, whalers and shipbuilders between the 16th and 20th centuries ...

Sometimes rivers split into branches in unusual ways, reflecting the complexity of Earth's water system on land and how much we still must learn about it.

Searching for the perfect socially distanced trip—or just some daydreaming fodder? Embrace the majesty of the United States ...

A photographer's iconic shots of polar bears in abandoned buildings on a Russian island shines a spotlight on wider changes ...

Translated as ‘the little gauge’, La Trochita, or the old Patagonian Express is a steam train that travels through some of ...

A new study based on two decades of data shows what happens in an ocean ecosystem without great white sharks. Great white ...

Seldovia, Alaska — a quintessential sleepy fishing town on the southern edge of the Kenai Peninsula — starts to wake up around late May. By then, the first salmon are running. Water taxis come and go.