We owe it to the right whale — and to so many other species — to reconstruct what our own history has taken from them.

© Grade Solomon for The New York Times

We owe it to the right whale — and to so many other species — to reconstruct what our own history has taken from them.

I had read about how the rapid warming of the Arctic was upending the landscape and its people. Now I’ve seen it.

A violent attack on a Vietnamese fishing boat tests Hanoi’s muted but resolute approach to China’s aggression in the South China Sea.