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Podcast: The Smallest Mollusk Museum

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team July 27, 2022

Koji-cured wild sockeye salmon at a restaurant in Vancouver, Canada.

130-Year-Old Menus Show How Climate Change Is Already Changing What We Eat

Eating local doesn't mean what it used to.

Ian Rose July 5, 2022

During World War II, members of the secretive Office of Strategic Services Maritime Unit trained and tested cutting-edge equipment on a quiet California island.

Remembering the World War II Frogmen Who Trained in Secret off the California Coast

Recruits learned the arts of infiltration, sabotage, and survival at a hidden base on Santa Catalina Island.

Andrew Dubbins June 30, 2022

The town of Selsey, on a peninsula called Manhood in England, was an island or peninsula at various times in history, and has often contended with flooding. In the far distance, behind the town, lies Medmerry Nature Reserve.

This English Town Is Letting the Sea Have Its Way

The coastal community of Selsey welcomes the return of salt marshes where farms once stood.

Erica Gies June 20, 2022

The Sahara? Nope. Bunge Land, a geological curiosity north of Siberia, at the edge of the Laptev Sea.

The Curious Case of the Arctic Desert Island That's Not Actually an Island

No one is sure how this geological oddity got there.

Gemma Tarlach May 31, 2022

A Sri Lankan Navy soldier walks amid the debris washed ashore from the container ship MV <em>X-Press Pearl</em> in May 2021.

What It Takes to Clean Up a Massive Nurdle Spill

Following a maritime disaster, Sri Lankans are cleaning their beaches, nurdle by nurdle.

Zinara Rathnayake May 27, 2022

A queen conch eyes up the situation in waters off Turks and Caicos.

Inside a Queen Conch Nursery in Puerto Rico That May Help Save the Iconic Species

The region's first and only locally-run hatchery provides a boost for both fishers and the imperiled royal sea snail.

Cynthia Barnett May 16, 2022

Bufadero La Garita

Bufadero La Garita

Nature puts on a spectacular show at this blowhole on the eastern side of Gran Canaria.

An unblemished ancient oyster (left), and an ancient oyster showing signs of the mystery parasite (right).

A Mystery Worm Is Threatening the Future of Washington’s Oysters

Clues from 1,000-year-old shells could reveal the parasite’s past—and portend the future.

Carly Cassella April 19, 2022

A satellite image from March 7, 2022, shows swirls of sea ice that resemble smoke—or a spectral apparition—against the deep blue North Atlantic.

The Wild and Wonderful Whorls of Brash Ice

Wandering currents and spring thaws make sea ice in East Greenland look like curls of smoke.

Gemma Tarlach April 8, 2022

Rio Grande, Brazil

Praia do Cassino

The longest sea beach in the world can be found on the southern coast of Brazil.

Andrea Marshall's love of marine life began at an early age, and is the motivation for her extensive research and conservation work.

The ‘Queen of the Mantas’ Who Became a Force of Nature

Lauded for her research on gentle giants of the sea, Andrea Marshall is using her fame to find hope for our troubled oceans.

Gemma Tarlach March 25, 2022

Rows of surviving column bases hint at the scale of Algeria's ancient site of Tipasa

Algeria’s Ancient Melting Pot Faces an Uncertain Future

For more than a millennium, Tipasa was a symbol of cross-cultural exchange. Now the sea is coming for it.

Gemma Tarlach February 17, 2022

Dos du Dragon

Ivoini, Comoros

Dos du Dragon

This moss-covered, rocky outcropping looks like a mythical beast resting in the water.

Podcast: Milky Seas

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team February 10, 2022

There are thought to be more than 300 belugas in captivity across 13 different countries, with the highest number housed in Russia, Japan, China, Ukraine, Canada, and the United States.

The Tricky Business of Saving a Baby Beluga

For the first time, scientists were able to save a young whale stranded in Cook Inlet. What should happen next?

Sarah Durn February 7, 2022

Looking northeast from the tip of Dhigurashu Thun'di, where atoll lagoon meets the Indian Ocean.

Dhigurah, Maldives

Dhigurashu Thun'di (Long Beach)

A narrow, serpentine spit of sand is constantly eroded and rebuilt by competing currents.

Anne Bonny and Mary Read were both "convicted of piracy at a Court of Vice Admiralty [and] held at St. Jago de la Vega on the Island of Jamaica, 28th November 1720," according to the inscription accompanying this 1724 Benjamin Cole engraving from <em>A General History of the Pyrates</em>, by Daniel Defoe and Charles Johnson.

Women Plundered and Swashbuckled With the Best (and Worst) of Them

The new book "Pirate Women" uncovers the stories of the women who sailed their way into history, cutlass in hand.

Sarah Durn January 4, 2022