The wild and remote Farallon Islands off the Marin coast offer daily proof of nature’s ebbs and flows. The changes, unseen by most, are dramatic. California sea lions have moved here from southern ...

The man-made Hoffman and Swinburne Islands have been given over to nature. These artificial landmasses in Lower New York Bay were constructed with landfill in the 1870s to quarantine newly arrived ...

For years, I had dreamt of visiting the Farallon Islands, a series of sharp rocky spires only 25 miles off the San Francisco coast. Mysterious and fascinating, they are often hidden by a dense curtain ...

In the early 2000s, wildlife ecologist Peter Sharpe climbed into a bald eagle’s nest on the edge of a cliff. He was completely focused on the task at hand: placing identification tags on a juvenile ...

The tiny foxes found only on California’s Channel Islands were once on the verge of disappearing forever. Now, ...

Had the HMS Beagle landed in Kangaroo Island first, Charles Darwin might never have made it to the Galapagos. That’s because Australia’s island that time forgot might be just as fascinating – whether ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Snares Islands are home to several species of penguin - Universal Images Group Editorial For a long time in the great white ...

If you are looking for somewhere unique to travel for a day, you should consider a whale watching tour around the Farallon Islands. Described as the Californian Galapagos, the Farallones, which are ...