In spring, the days lengthen, the water warms slightly, nutrients flow into the ocean’s surface layers from land or deeper ...

Killer whales occasionally find themselves where they don’t belong. In the Arctic, they routinely get stuck on the wrong side ...

A recent scientific expedition to the Gulf of Mexico seafloor shows just how little things have improved near the broken well.

Every year, thousands of tourists from around the world visit British Columbia’s coastal rivers in search of an exciting ...

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 ...

After a nearly 30-year hiatus, Atlantic Canada’s redfish fishery is coming back. But as opening day draws nearer, concerns about its viability are mounting.

They are prolific breeders, raising a dozen or more young per year in times of plenty, as happy and quick to set up house ...

As the Great Salt Lake in Utah shrinks, locals are working to preserve its critical brine shrimp fishery—along with the other entities that flourish in the lake’s strange, saline beauty.

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 ...