The Sea of Cortez is home to some of the most diverse and plentiful sea life on the North American West Coast. I have seen dorado, dolphins, flying fish, giant grey and sperm whales, manta rays ...

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 ...

I retired to the desert 20+ years ago and have seen dozens of plans to "restore" the Salton Sea. Lots of talk and print but no action, so here is my suggestion. The Sea is about 200 feet below sea ...

Each episode focuses on a specific region, spending time with the various critters who call those places home. The series devotes an entire episode to Mexico, a place where the North American ...

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 ...

In the second-part of a National Geographic Radio Expedition to the Sea of Cortez, NPR's John McChesney reports on the observations marine biologists have made along the coast, near the City of La Paz ...

We’re just 10 minutes out to sea when a large shadow the size of a bus passes under the boat. “There!” our captain says, pulling the boat around. We slow and gaze below in awe as a 28’ whale shark ...