Lands & Waters

Three pods of orcas known as the "Southern Residents" have feasted on salmon in Puget Sound for thousands of years. Now they're vanishing.

How one man's quest to visit every national park sparked Ken Burns's latest documentary

How the Sierra Club's 1960s lawsuit stopped Disney from turning Mineral King into a ski resort

Plastic, plastic everywhere—including the deep blue sea

Eyes peeled for terrorists, the Coast Guard missed the boat—and San Francisco Bay took an ugly hit

Dave Rastovich Byron Bay, Australia; cofounder, Surfers for Cetaceans

We're still killing the creatures with the biggest brains on the planet—to make dog food

Photographers David Liittschwager and Susan Middleton give undersea creatures the star treatment

This electrical engineer turns waves into watts

West Coast tidepools