NPR's John McChesney recently returned from a visit to Baja California to report on a crew of scientists following the route John Steinbeck and Ed "Doc" Ricketts made 64 years ago, charting the marine ...

We have witnessed firsthand the damaging impacts of human excess on the Sea of Cortez’s natural resources — and on the well-being of its coastal communities. Overfishing, illegal fishing, coastal ...

Scientists return a vaquita, a tiny stubby-nosed porpoise on the verge of extinction, into the ocean as part of a conservation project in the Sea of Cortez. File photo via REUTERS The United States is ...

In the waters off Isla el Pardito, where rocky reefs meet mangrove swamps in Mexico’s Gulf of California, marine biologists ...

It is called the Bahía de los Sueños—the Bay of Dreams—and it doesn’t take long to understand why. We arrive at dawn when the water laps the shores softly, when the wind blows gently, when the tide is ...

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The Sea of Cortez, also known as the Gulf of California, is a unique corner of the Pacific Ocean. This remarkable young sea is thought to be around five million years old and home to nearly 900 ...

Bill Streever, author of “Cold,” “Heat” and other science-related books, is a biologist who splits his time between Alaska and sailboat cruising in warmer waters. When the coronavirus pandemic hit in ...