In his new book of poems, Seabeast, Rajiv Mohabir, imagines the lives of whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Mohabir’s poems plumb and reimagine the history of human interaction with these aquatic ...

An Argentine research team just finished a first-of-its-kind look into the Mar del Plata Canyon, a deep South Atlantic gorge that drops to about 11,500 feet. They used a robot to see habitats that ...

Beneath the waves of Africa’s coastlines lie stories frozen in time in the form of sunken ships and forgotten cargo.

Experts speculate that orcas may be playing when they ram boats so hard they sink—a phenomenon that’s mostly been documented in this region.

When Fredy Yavinape was a young child, he didn’t know the biological concept of an “umbrella species.” These are species that require large areas of undisturbed habitat to survive, which is why they ...

Remote and wild, Indonesia’s Raja Ampat region has been considered sacred by locals for centuries. New coral conservation voyages offer a unique perspective on its islands and reefs.

Two green sea turtles were rescued from the uMzimkulu River, allowing uShaka Sea World to study their oceanic movements, a rare opportunity for marine research.

The new threatened species is known from only three pools of water that sit along a road into a small village in eastern Brazil.

Shark fin bans around the worldCanadaCanada has prohibited shark finning since 1994 by means of a licensing requirement for fishers. In 2018, the government added a fins naturally attached (FNA) ...