Loose Lips Save Sunken Ships They used to keep historical shipwrecks hidden. Now, a marine sanctuary is trying a new tactic: radical honesty.
The Republic of Cows When habitat loss is one of the biggest issues facing wild animals, why has Alaska given an entire uninhabited, remote island to feral cattle?
Cutting the Crap A small group of English cold-water swimmers takes on industry and the government over the misuse of a loophole allowing the discharge of raw sewage into coastal waters.
When Deep-Sea Miners Come A-Courting As the Cook Islands embraces the burgeoning industry, deep-sea mining companies are becoming part of the community’s day-to-day. Can the country avoid the mistakes of resource extraction’s past?
Featured Loose Lips Save Sunken Ships They used to keep historical shipwrecks hidden. Now, a marine sanctuary is trying a new tactic: radical honesty.
Years After the Blob, the Pacific Still Doesn’t Look the Same The 2014–2016 marine heatwave transformed the ecosystem of the northeast Pacific. Some of those changes seem here to stay. Aug 25, 2023 | 600 words, about 3 minutes
California’s Undisturbed Gaviota Coast Draws a Shocking Range of Wildlife Mountain lions and bears and pigs, oh my! Charting the unexpected denizens of California beaches. Aug 24, 2023 | 650 words, about 3 minutes
The Batavia’s Story of Mutiny and Murder Gets a New Chapter Archaeologists have unearthed new evidence of the 400-year-old bloodshed on a remote Australian island. Aug 23, 2023 | 1,100 words, about 5 minutes
Loose Lips Save Sunken Ships They used to keep historical shipwrecks hidden. Now, a marine sanctuary is trying a new tactic: radical honesty. Aug 22, 2023 | 1,600 words, about 8 minutes
The Straw That Hijacked the Plastic Pollution Movement Plastic straws used to be “environmental enemy number one.” Was the fight against them in vain? Aug 21, 2023 | 1,500 words, about 8 minutes
The Ocean Is Big and Stuff Is Complicated. We’re Here to Help Six short videos to educate, entertain, and make you insufferable at parties. Aug 18, 2023 | 6 videos
The Hidden Victims of the Shadow Fleet Without their knowledge, seafarers are having their lives put at risk by shady, sanctions-busting oil smugglers. Aug 17, 2023 | 1,000 words, about 5 minutes
Boom and Bust, All at Once: The Fraught Modern History of Fish Meal How the cheap protein fueled the Global North’s agricultural expansion and destabilized the Global South. Aug 16, 2023 | 1,200 words, about 6 minutes