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The Four Sisters: China's Mythic Creatures & Wild Landscapes

The Minshan Mountains are a veritable fairyland, resplendent with blooming orchids, singing birds, primeval forests and cascading waterfalls. Traditional...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: The Natural Worlds of Antarctica and the Falklands

Well into this very cold winter—though still far from its end—I like to dream about the summer that’s happening some other place now, down at the bottom of...

Courtney Nachlas

Monarch Populations Soar to New Heights

Walking through the Mexican Highlands, you can almost hear a little flutter. Footsteps slowly approach the noise as the forest in the distance comes into...

Hannah Wagner

Conservation-Minded Travel and 9 Tips to Get You Started

What unites travelers is our love of place. Most travelers want to help support the destinations they visit, but don’t know where to start. As tourism...

Hannah Wagner

The Grand Canyon National Park Celebrates 100 Years

One of America’s most iconic national parks is celebrating 100 years! These deep, rust-colored rocks carved by an ancient river now adorn countless bucket...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Grand Canyon Video: The Fluid Fingers of Formation

The Earth’s surface has so many different colors, features and forms that it’s not hard to understand why early scientists found it difficult to determine...

Olaf Malver

Andaman Encounters | Olaf’s Corner

Kayaking the Seven Seas has given me plenty of fantastic wildlife encounters to marvel at, but what floated some hundred feet in front of my boat in the...

Emily Goodheart

Fernandina Giant Tortoise Found After 113 Years of ‘Extinction’

More great news for the Galapagos! A species of giant tortoise, believed to have been extinct for the past 113 years, has been found on the island of...

Emily Goodheart

From Research to Ranomafana: Lemur Conservation in Madagascar

I sat in the middle of the woods, waterproof notebook in hand, the pitter patter of raindrops falling around me. Out of the corner of my eye, a red ruffed...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: The “Scientific” Beauty of the Northern Lights

There are many delightful and magical myths about the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights. The Inuit of North America interpreted the lights as...

Olaf Malver

Thank You, Palau | Olaf’s Corner

With long flowing hair, a bronzed muscular body and dressed only in salty paddling shorts, my co-guide, Ron Leidich, lectured us with focused authority. The...

Kendal Bower

Wildlife Photo of the Week: Afternoon Yawn

Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a sleepy fox in Yellowstone National...

Olaf Malver

Paddling the Beauty in the Dark | Olaf’s Corner

The young Buddhist monk in a saffron-colored robe offered his blessings to me and my kayak. He wished us good luck on our journey through the big cave under...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Stickiness of Learning Outdoors

Today, the average American child is by far an indoor creature, spending only four to seven minutes a day in unstructured play outdoors and more than seven...

Olaf Malver

Children: Our True Hope in Conservation | Olaf’s Corner

In these uncertain days of environmental onslaught of our planet’s wild places and species, I have a hard time looking into my own children’s eyes without...

Emily Goodheart

Snow Leopards and Sacred Mountains: Buddhist Monks Lead the Way in Conservation

In Search of the Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen The now across the river glows, and the rocks and peaks, the serpentine black stream, and snows, sky, stars,...

Emily Goodheart

Inspiring Iceland: Five Facts About the Land of Ice & Fire

1. Waterfalls and Hidden Wonders From cascading waterfalls to glistening glaciers, Iceland is full of hidden wonders waiting to be discovered by the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Grasslands: A Lot More Than Just Flyover Country

Across the world, they go by many names: downs, prairies, pampas, rangelands, steppes, savannas or velds. But what all of these landscapes have in common is...