EditorialHelen Mayer, whose struggles to find child care inspired her to launch the day-care startup Otter, leaves the house with her twins, Arthur, left, and Andrew, in San Francisco, May 6, 2022. (Jason Henry/The New York Times)
EditorialPuppets from the new theater production “Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas,” in Long Island City, N.Y., Nov. 17, 2021. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialVisitors gather near a stretch of the 27-mile Park Loop Road between Sand Beach and Otter Cliff, seen in the background, at Acadia National Park in Maine on July 5, 2021. (Stacey Cramp/The New York Times)
EditorialVisitors gather near a stretch of the 27-mile Park Loop Road between Sand Beach and Otter Cliff, seen in the background, at Acadia National Park in Maine on July 5, 2021. (Stacey Cramp/The New York Times)
EditorialSea otters, which can eat nearly 1,000 sea urchins a day, have seen their numbers along Alaska’s Aleutian Islands shrink by 90 percent in recent decades. (Scott Dickerson/The New York Times)
EditorialSea otters, which can eat nearly 1,000 sea urchins a day, have seen their numbers along Alaska’s Aleutian Islands shrink by 90 percent in recent decades. (Scott Dickerson/The New York Times)
EditorialSea otters, which can eat nearly 1,000 sea urchins a day, have seen their numbers along Alaska’s Aleutian Islands shrink by 90 percent in recent decades. (Scott Dickerson/The New York Times)
EditorialA giant river otter in a pre-release pen at Iberá National Park, in Argentina’s province of Corrientes, March 6, 2020. (Victor Moriyama/The New York Times)