Since April, Lummi Nation natural resources staff have headed into the mud, week after week, to capture European green crabs in small metal traps. It’s part of an intensive effort to eradicate the ...

The young blue crabs of Chesapeake Bay have a guardian that is saving them from a deadly parasite.

This story was originally produced by the New Hampshire Bulletin, an independent local newsroom that allows NHPR and other outlets to republish its reporting. David Johnson had been working in the ...

Bangladesh’s soft-shell crab exports are booming, but the Sundarbans’ fragile ecosystem is paying the price as juvenile crabs are harvested and mangrove soil destabilised ...

Mud crabs—species of Scylla—are among the most important architects of Sundarbans creek ecosystems. Yet across large parts of the forest, these engineers are being removed at a pace and scale that the ...