• In Coastal British Columbia, the Haida Get Their Land Back

    Twenty years ago, Geoff Plant, the then attorney general of British Columbia, made an offer to the Haida Nation. Many West Coast First Nations, including the Haida, had never signed treaties with the Canadian government ceding their traditional lands or

  • One Great Shot: Swimming with Seaplanes

    In the heart of the western Pacific Ocean, surrounded by coral atolls and the lush tropical islands of Palau, lies a remarkable relic: the wreck of a seaplane from the Second World War. This plane is an Aichi E13A—a type

  • Exploring the Forests of the Sea

    This story was originally published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Maggie Reddy was growing up on the eastern coast of South Africa in the 1990s, the

  • In Graphic Detail: Pirates on the Horizon

    At around 11:30 a.m. on March 6, 2024, Houthi militants from Yemen fired a ballistic missile at a Barbados-flagged, Liberian-owned bulk carrier transiting the Gulf of Aden, a shipping route between the Arabian and Somali Peninsulas. A large fire broke

  • Rescuers Grapple with How to Save Distressed Sawfish

    This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. An unprecedented US federal effort to rescue and rehabilitate endangered smalltooth sawfish is getting underway this week in the Florida