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 ...

Novelist John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts collaborated in 1940 to write The Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research, a travelogue of their six-week voyage along the ...

About 3 miles east of Bombay Beach, and a half-mile back from the Salton Sea’s receding shoreline, the crunchy exposed playa gives way from a mostly empty white landscape to more and more native ...

The University of Arizona will launch its first crowd-funding campaign to plan the transformation of Biosphere 2’s tropical lagoon into an ocean filled with species from the Gulf of California. Rafe ...

The Western Flyer, a fishing vessel made famous by John Steinbeck's book "The Sea of Cortez," is returning to the Gulf of California after 85 years. The renovated vessel will retrace Steinbeck's ...

Thirteen years ago, an enormous great white shark sprawled on a beach near Guaymas, Mexico, on the mainland side of the Sea of Cortez, quickly became a spectacle. Commercial fishermen Guadalupe and ...

On the eve of World War II, acclaimed author John Steinbeck and his good friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts, sailed off from the Northern California city of Monterey to explore the Sea of Cortez, ...