Cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch may kill the neuston. Biologist Rebecca Helm says surface skimming risks this vital ...

The yellow-bellied slider is a semiaquatic turtle, native to southeastern United States, where it is the most common turtle species. As the name suggests, they have a yellow belly that is buried under ...

Seabirds undertake some of the most impressive migrations on Earth, but their remote nature means these journeys can be ...

Q. Someone told me that the body and arms of calamari, like you eat in a restaurant, can be more than 40 feet long. I’m not sure I believe my ...

Jessica Gee of The Bucket List Family debuts a new family travel guide with expert tips for traveling with kids and the best kid-friendly places to stay.

San Franciscans called them the “Outside Lands.” There were more than 13,000 unincorporated acres of sand dunes west of the civilization that ended in the vicinity of Divisadero and Eddy ...

For more than a century, sea otters vanished from Washington’s waters, hunted to extinction. Now, their slow return is ...

India’s extensive 7,500-km coastline and position in the busy Indian Ocean make it vulnerable. Can something be done?

Nearly 150 years after the last giant tortoises were removed from Floreana Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago, the species made a comeback Friday, when dozens of juvenile hybrids were released ...