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Four zebra shark pups swish around in underwater pens near the islands of Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Baby sharks Kathlyn, Charlie, Mali, and Audrey will be the first of 500 zebra […]

NESHA ICHIDA KNELT in a turquoise lagoon in Indonesia's Raja Ampat Islands and gently cradled a baby shark. The creature twisting beneath her fingers looked like something imagined by a [...]

WE'VE REACHED A NEW MILESTONE in the human journey. Last November, according to the United Nations, the number of people on Earth hit eight billion. Our population has doubled in [...]

Now a couple of scientists sampled his DNA to measure how fast this fur ball was growing. Since 1962, scientists in this high mountain meadow have been mapping marmots' social [...]

AMID ROLLING FARMS and green pasture 150 miles northwest of Sao Paulo, Brazil, two tropical forests bloom as one. The first consists of a single species, row after row of [...]

THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE in this fire-scarred forest is the color. Not long ago this square of land south of Yellowstone National Park was a monochrome of ash and [...]

AT VOLKSWAGEN'S ASSEMBLY PLANT in Chattanooga, Tennessee, car bodies soar high above the concrete floor on conveyors, like seats on a slow-moving carnival ride. Every 73 seconds one gets lowered [...]

Seven trees sprout on a hillside near the southern tip of South America, above the treacherous swirl of spray where the Pacific Ocean meets the Atlantic. It's not an impressive [...]

JOHN FORD WANTED a whale's-eye view. One summer day in 1978 a pod of killer whales raced toward a pebbled beach on British Columbia's Vancouver Island. The young biologist was [...]

ON A WEATHERED PROMENADE at the edge of the Pacific, near the photo booths and the pretzel stand and a man molding busts of tourists out of clay, spins a [...]

This article from National Geographic Kids discusses the efforts of conservationists to reintroduce zebra sharks into the waters near the islands of Raja Ampat, Indonesia. The area was once a healthy coral reef ecosystem, but destructive fishing methods and hunting of sharks had a negative impact on the habitat. To help the zebra shark population recover, researchers took eggs from captivity and released the babies into protected marine areas. The article explains the process of breeding and transporting the eggs, as well as the steps taken to ensure the survival and adaptation of the young sharks in the wild. The ultimate goal of the project is to restore the ecosystem and protect shark species. [Extracted from the article]

TO SEE ALL THAT'S HOPEFUL and appalling about the way we treat sea turtles, there's no better place to start than the Burj Al Arab Jumeirah hotel. This shimmering tower [...]

SERGEY ZIMOV, AN ECOLOGIST BY training, tossed a woolly mammoth bone on the pile. He was squatting in mud along the cool, wide Kolyma River, below a towering cliff of [...]

HE WAS BORN ON A SAILBOAT in Leith Harbour, an abandoned whaling station on South Georgia island. His father, a French adventurer, had met his mother, an Australian zoologist, on [...]

It's daybreak at 11,000 feet, and somewhere below, the monkeys are stirring. Admassu Getaneh marches past flowering herbs and thick grass along the edge of a plateau in the central [...]

Acres of aspens = one colossal tree At more than 6,500 tons, a grove of quaking aspens growing on 106 acres in Utah is, by weight, Earth's largest known land [...]

THE FIRST FIN WHALE appeared in Marmot Bay, where the sea curls a crooked finger around Alaska's Kodiak Island. A biologist spied the calf drifting on its side, as if [...]

In just a few decades the United States could eliminate fossil fuels and rely 100 percent on clean, renewable energy. That's the bold vision of Mark Jacobson, a Stanford engineering [...]

The article focuses on the efforts of aquariums worldwide to raise endangered sharks and release them into the sea as a means of restoring shark populations. Topics include the decline of shark species due to overfishing, the formation of the ReShark collective to breed and release sharks, and the challenges and potential benefits of shark reintroduction programs.

The article focuses on the expected decline in global population growth in the 21st century, with some countries continuing to grow while others see a decline. Topics discussed include the projected halt in population growth, the role of eight countries in the projected increase, and the predicted population changes in Nigeria and China.

Craig Parker popped his head above his head above the surf, peeled off his dive mask and clambered aboard the Ichiban. We were anchored 50 yards offshore from a fir-lined [...]

ERIC FORSMAN TRAMPED ACROSS the spongy ground with one ear tipped to the tangled branches above. We were circling an isolated Douglas fir and cedar stand near Mary's Peak, the [...]

On a June morning in 2009, I stood in the mud on a Pacific Ocean beach watching a work crew gathering oysters. These shellfish had been held in reserve by [...]

The company is building electric pickups, sport utility vehicles, and delivery vans. UPS took a stake in another EV company and is buying 10,000 electric delivery vans. New electric-car and electric-truck companies keep popping up: Bollinger, Faraday Future, Nio, Byton. [Extracted from the article]

Even though our 2007 Nieman fellowship year ended little more than a decade ago, two of our classmates have since died: Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, who was murdered in [...]

The man who has protected more of the sea than anyone in history is entirely at ease in it. You see that right away. In September, just months before he [...]