This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). In the spring of 1925, the research vessel Arcturus slipped away from New York Harbor under the leadership of New York Zoological ...

Steve Backshall journeys the globe with some of the greatest travelers on the planet. Steve Backshall journeys the globe with some of the greatest travelers on the planet as he explores the reasons ...

Hear how the sea influences artists and others in this Spectrum Hawaiʻi episode from 1995. In this episode of Spectrum Hawaiʻi from 1995, artists share how the sea influences their crafts. Wyland is ...

Steve considers the question of what humanity can do to ensure the enduring future of whales. Steve returns home to the Atlantic waters of the British Isles as he considers the question of what ...

Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from extinction, a group that might not seem like it ...

A rumor that has circulated online since 2018 claims that, in 2017, a humpback whale in the Cook Islands used its body to push marine biologist Nan Hauser around while she was underwater, seemingly to ...

How are whale populations faring? Traditionally, getting an answer to that question involved counting whales by taking their ...

The offspring of longer whale mothers are more likely to be female than those of shorter mums 1. For species whose males compete for access to females, scientists disagree about whether mothers with ...

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Tropical rainforests regulate the global climate and sustain the planet’s richest biodiversity. Yet, despite more than a decade of ...

The Rio Grande is one of North America’s great rivers, flowing nearly 1,900 miles from southern Colorado through New Mexico and along the Texas-Mexico border. It’s a lifeline that provides freshwater ...

HARRISBURG, S.D. — Kids clambered onto a fire truck painted white, its rooftop sporting a huge stuffed tiger and a flag waving high for Harrisburg High's football team in this suburb of Sioux Falls.