Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international correspondents share snapshots of moments from their ...

Sometimes, the best kind of escape isn’t a luxury resort or a famous beach; it’s a quiet, untouched speck of land where time ...

When Leon Hohl and Alper Yelimlieş landed in the Galápagos in 2022 to volunteer in a decades-old nest survey project, they ...

On the "Aqua Mare" in the Galápagos, close encounters with the resident wildlife come with standard-setting luxury.

Guests diving aboard Galapagos Aggressor III can experience marine iguanas and other ocean life found nowhere else in the ...

The remote Galápagos Islands of the Pacific, about 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, have no historic monuments, only a handful of human settlements and the barest smattering of amenities such ...

As the world confronts escalating climate impacts, biodiversity loss, and ocean degradation, islands stand as critical test cases—not just as sites of vulnerability, but as living laboratories of ...

The Galapagos is often described as the most unspoiled destination on Earth (Picture: Getty Images) Nestled in the eastern Pacific Ocean some 1,000km off the coast of Ecuador, the Galapagos ...

One of the significant factors to how Galápagos penguins adapted to living in this warm climate is that they nest in cool, shady crevices on the islands. The coastlines are sculpted by explosive ...

seems set to recover unaided on Pinzón Island in the Galapagos archipelago. Rats, early whalers and pirates almost wiped out these ancient creatures. We found ten tiny, newly hatched saddleback ...

Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto Plunging into the crystalline waters of the Galápagos Islands, scuba divers swam along a coral reef and watched its ever-shifting marine life. Amid the ...

The Galápagos Islands served as the site of Charles Darwin's famous flora and fauna observations and the inspiration behind his groundbreaking "On the Origin of Species," so it's hardly ...