Since today is the start of Shark Week, an annual TV programming block at the Discovery Channel, I'm remembering a scary incident. We were on vacation during the Thanksgiving holidays with our kids ...

Silvertip Shark (Carcharhinus albimarginatus) in san Benedicto Island, Revillagigedo. (Photo by: Luis Javier Sandoval/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) With global reef shark populations ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Endangered Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) and other shark species are making a striking recovery in Belize after plummeting due to ...

A Kentucky family got a close-up look at a great white shark last Thursday while out fishing on a charter boat in Destin, Florida. Destin’s Capt. Taylor Bankston had taken the family of four out for a ...

Reef net fishing is an ancient, sustainable salmon-harvesting technique created and perfected by the Lummi and other Coast Salish Indigenous people over a millennium. Rather than chasing the fish, ...

The production of this article and accompanying photographs are the result of a collaboration between environment and science news platform, Mongabay, and McClatchy News. “Some mornings, the sun’s ...