The majority of the world’s sea otters (90%) are northern sea otters living off of the coast of Alaska. Many of these otters can be found in the waters around Glacier Bay National Park, Kodiak ...

A sea otter off the coast of Vancouver Island is the prime suspect in a string of river otter deaths, according to a local wildlife enthusiast and researcher. Mollie Cameron, who is both a ...

Peter Gwin is an editor at large for National Geographic and cohost of the award-winning podcast Overheard. He began as a staff writer for the magazine in 2003, and has contributed stories from an ...

A locally famous sea otter in Canada is gaining a reputation for violence after being spotted carrying around the bodies of dead river otters and using them for sexual purposes. Ollie, as he’s known ...

A sea otter off the coast of Vancouver Island is the prime suspect in a string of river otter deaths, according to a local wildlife enthusiast and researcher. Mollie Cameron, who is both a captain ...

The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians (CTSI) has been awarded a three-year, $1.56 million grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to support tribal efforts to return sea otters ...

Residents describe experiences of sore throats and other symptoms. The energy storage industry insists that this incident is ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. To see all that’s hopeful and appalling about the way we treat sea turtles, there’s no better place to start than ...

Learn more about the history of Sea Ice Today and ASINA. Sea Ice Today is produced by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), which is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in ...

The ruling also declared the Philippines to have rightful ownership of West Philippine Sea. The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs said any claims “beyond the geographic and substantive limits ...