After centuries of overhunting by fur traders, sea otters have largely disappeared from the Oregon and Northern California ...

A coastal tribe wants to return otters to their native waters off the Oregon coast, though a recent grant to expedite that ...

Sea otters also serve an important role as a keystone species in the environment, by eating invasive crustaceans like green crabs, and by restoring and maintaining kelp forests. “There’s also ...

Wild sea otters are no longer such a rare sight along the eastern coast of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island. Experts reckon there are now more than 50 of the endangered marine ...

Scientists have produced the first remote sensing analysis of how water clouded by sediment in glacier meltwater moves on the ...

Many Black people are finding joy, community, thrills and a bigger sense of the world through activities that were once ...

He reached into cracks and peered into crevices with a flashlight, hoping to find an endangered marine snail whose shell recently has become California’s state seashell: the black abalone. Seven ...

West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...