The environmental desolation of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 sparked the largest coordinated oceanic research effort in history: as contamination spread across the Gulf of Mexico, an international […]

Chile’s history is inseperable from its waterways. Its 2,670-mile-long coastline encompasses the world’s largest archipelago, and the waters that flow through it contain the memories of an entire nation: the […]

Two radical environmentalists and an ex-marine plan an act of ecoterrorism: they build a bomb to blow up a dam, hoping to block the urban development swiftly unfurling itself over […]

When a little girl realizes that the frozen fish fingers her parents feed her were once living fish, she tries to send them back to the sea.   Directed and […]

Two photographers visit California’s Central Valley to cover the state’s historic drought, leaving with staggering black-and-white images of a bounty turned to desolation, along with the dire testimonies of the […]

Could we live on Mars? Would we want to? Ian Cheney (The City Dark) examines our fraught relationship with our homeworld by delving into the sci-fi speculation of “terraforming,” or […]

The “bird rangers” of the Boschplaat Nature Reserve on the northern Dutch island of Terschelling, have always done much more than guard the wetlands. They’re full-fledged scientists, closely monitoring the […]

In 1976, William W. Warner’s Pulitzer-winning Beautiful Swimmers delighted readers everywhere with its tales of Callinectes sapidus, or the Atlantic blue crab, and the Chesapeake watermen whose livelihoods depend on […]

At three different corners of the Atlantic, fishing communities in Ireland, Norway, and Newfoundland ­share social, economic and environmental problems stemming from human interactions with the ocean’s ecosystems. But while […]

On Earth Day 2010, the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded, flooding the Gulf of Mexico with crude oil and devastating the coastline. Filmmaker Jon Bowermaster returns to the shores of […]