The tiny Kwiakah First Nation, with 19 members, has launched a “return home” by transforming a former open-net salmon farm into a floating, solar-powered scientific hub anchored in their traditional ...

Last summer, the Vancouver Aquarium started offering sea otter encounters, and the Straight had the chance to see what it was like to interact a little more closely with the aquarium’s fluffiest ...

Tlingit twin carvers Mick and Rick Beasley created the totem poles. M. Beasley said they were carved at Fred Meyer’s request because the Juneau storefront was the most productive nationally. The brown ...

Leaders of the Alaska Permanent Fund, which pays residents dividends and finances public services, wanted to invest in Alaska ...

Larissa and Duncan are sailing around the world with their two kids to spot wildlife and collect vital ocean data.

This technology bears on important questions about when and where to store ... and a significant loss of northern kelp forests. These events increase concern that coastal and marine ecosystems are ...

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 ...

They’ve observed black bears combing the beach for berries and sea otters playing in kelp forests right from the boat and heard sea wolves howling at night. What’s more, Larissa shares ...

But for many, that comes with a tradeoff too big to bear — a period of redness and ... Miracle Broth (derived from nutrient-loaded sea kelp). But perhaps its most impressive trick may be the ...

The latter, Japanese for “pleasant savoury taste”, was named in 1908 by chemist Kikunae Ikeda after he drank a soup made with edible kelp and found ... and polar bears (1990s) to the ...