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Get Ready for the Robotic Fish Revolution
Human technology has long drawn inspiration from the natural world: The first airplanes were modeled after birds. The designer of Velcro was inspired by the irksome burrs he often had to pick off his...
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Light at the End of the Tunnel
Every year, hundreds of muscular, sea-bright fish—chum salmon, chinook, coho, steelhead—push into the Columbia River from the Pacific Ocean, swim over 200 kilometers upstream, and turn left into Hardy...
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Meet the Killer Whales You Thought You Knew
John Ford still recalls the first time he heard them. He’d been puttering around the Deserters Group archipelago, a smattering of spruce- and cedar-choked islands in Queen Charlotte Strait, between...
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Scientists Are Sweating Over Freakishly High Marine Heat
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Record temperatures in 2024 on land and at sea have prompted scientists to...
View ArticleCoastal Job: Antarctic Fire Captain
Some people work in cubicles, others work in kitchens, but the most intriguing workplace of all may be the coast. Meet the people who head to the ocean instead of the office in our Coastal Jobs...
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Saving a Sea Monkey Sanctuary
Someone approaching the shores of Utah’s bleached-out and odiferous Great Salt Lake for the first time might be inclined to call it dead. This is not the case. Only half of it is at death’s door. The...
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Putting the Cart Before the Redfish
This article provides an update to the story “In Cod’s Shadow, Redfish Rise,” published in February 2023, which explored the possible future of the redfish fishery. In Cod’s Shadow, Redfish Rise...
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For Marlin, Stripes Mean Stop
As sleek and zippy as a race car, the striped marlin has earned the right to be called the Ferrari of the ocean. These torpedo-shaped fish propel themselves with powerful tails and have been documented...
View ArticleCan Green Hydrogen Production Help Bring Oceanic Dead Zones Back to Life?
Douglas Wallace was on a research ship in the middle of Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence when he heard the news: Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau had met with Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, in...
View ArticleMaking a Marsh out of a Mud Pile
The water in California’s San Francisco Bay could rise more than two meters by the year 2100. For the region’s tidal marshes and their inhabitants, such as the endangered Ridgway’s rail and the salt...
View ArticleRescuers Grapple with How to Save Distressed Sawfish
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. An unprecedented US federal effort to rescue and rehabilitate endangered...
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In Graphic Detail: Pirates on the Horizon
At around 11:30 a.m. on March 6, 2024, Houthi militants from Yemen fired a ballistic missile at a Barbados-flagged, Liberian-owned bulk carrier transiting the Gulf of Aden, a shipping route between the...
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Exploring the Forests of the Sea
This story was originally published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Maggie Reddy was growing up on the eastern coast of...
View ArticleSomething Is Killing Saint Helena’s Cloud Forest
Rebecca Cairns-Wicks looks up at the branches of a black cabbage tree. It’s growing at the edge of a grassy road along a sinuous ridge leading up the misty slopes of the cloud forest on Saint Helena...
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One Great Shot: Swimming with Seaplanes
In the heart of the western Pacific Ocean, surrounded by coral atolls and the lush tropical islands of Palau, lies a remarkable relic: the wreck of a seaplane from the Second World War. This plane is...
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The Deepwater Horizon’s Very Unhappy Anniversary
In March 2024, about a dozen scientists and crew members ventured into the Gulf of Mexico armed with an underwater rover, crab traps, and other research kit. Led by Craig McClain, a deep-sea biologist...
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In Coastal British Columbia, the Haida Get Their Land Back
Twenty years ago, Geoff Plant, the then attorney general of British Columbia, made an offer to the Haida Nation. Many West Coast First Nations, including the Haida, had never signed treaties with the...
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The Waning Reign of the Wetland Architect We Barely Know (Hint: Not a Beaver)
When I was a teenager, my parents bought a home near an old farm pond in Bangor, Maine. A family of muskrats lived there and would go about their business as I lazed on the dock; I didn’t pay them...
View ArticleIn the Rush to Decarbonize, the Shipping Industry Is Exploring Alternative Fuels
For decades, the world’s commercial ships have depended on a fossil fuel so sticky and thick that it needs to be heated to around 150 °C just to get it to flow through a vessel’s innards. Heavy Fuel...
View ArticleWhat the Heck Is Seaweed Mining?
Seaweed is versatile; it provides habitat for marine life, shelters coastlines, and absorbs carbon dioxide. But in the United States, scientists are setting out to see whether seaweed has another...
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