In a suspected case of reverse evolution, wild tomatoes in the Galápagos have developed a defense mechanism that hasn’t been seen in millions of years.

Scientists and conservationists have raised concerns about environmental consequences as the islands are a UNESCO World ...

This spring, I was standing on the forward bow of the MS Santa Cruz II, bird-watching with a group of tourists under the cliffs of the Galápagos’s largest island, when one member of our company ...

Since the tortoises' digestion process can take 28 days, the researchers are worried about the effects of the trash.

A barge carrying 600 gallons of diesel fuel sank in waters off the Galápagos Islands early Sunday, prompting an emergency cleanup effort in the environmentally sensitive area, park officials said on ...

Summer vacation season is in full swing. Orlando is this year's top tourist destination, according to AAA, followed by Honolulu and Anchorage, Alaska. Or, you could get creative and go island-hopping ...

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Sydney Sweeney earns fans’ wrath over her poor German accent in her recent film, Eden. In the film, Sweeney portrays the role of real-life German settler Margret Wittmer. Eden also stars Ana de Armas, ...

Our first reef community stop in the Reefscape project was the Galápagos Islands in December 2017. We found that ocean events such as El Niño can wipe out huge areas of reef, yet coral survival and ...

Some conservationists and travel experts are worried about the environmental impact of a growing number of visitors on the fragile, otherworldly archipelago. By Adam Popescu “The archipelago is a ...

Hundreds of miles off the coast of Ecuador, in the very place that inspired Charles Darwin’s seminal theory of evolution, a wild-growing species appears to have hit rewind. A small tomato found in the ...