Nature & Wildlife Stories

Robots Are Helping Us Understand Nature

Wouldn’t it be great to have your own robot; a mechanical butler whose sole purpose is to make your life a bit easier by bringing you things and doing your...

Michelle Peters

English Wildlife: Intriguing Animals of Great Britain

Sometimes even the most pastoral landscapes can reveal some of nature’s wildest secrets. Case in point: the refined Cotswolds Hills in England. Amidst tidy...

Megan Brief

Why Large Mammals Thrive in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

It's late summer and my camera shutter slows as the setting sun casts a mosaic of golden light and shadows across the Lamar Valley. My focus wanders to the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Trees: Our Best Defense Against Climate Change

For decades, it’s been clear that the Earth’s climate is changing, and it’s almost universally agreed that humans have had a role in it. The hard science...

Cathy Brown

What Makes Yellowstone’s Wild Wolves So Captivating?

Wolves once had one of the largest natural ranges of any terrestrial mammal in the Northern Hemisphere. Packs once populated diverse regions from the Arctic...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Christmas 2021: Coexisting with Cats, an India Story

In a few days, many of you will be celebrating Christmas or another religious holiday. That means that your end-of-year celebrations might likely revolve...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Clarifying the Confounding Words of Climate Change

Carbon neutral. Mitigation. Tipping point. Unprecedented transition. If asked, could you explicitly define the terms above, words that are often used in...

Samantha Miller

Why the Monarch Butterfly Migration Is Mexico’s Top Natural Wonder

Each fall, millions of monarch butterflies land in Mexico's Central Highlands after a long journey to find respite from the cooling winter temperatures in the...

Michelle Peters

Discover the Top Places to See Animals in Iceland

When one daydreams about Iceland, the images that likely spring to mind are volcanic landscapes and vast glaciers—after all, this is the Land of Fire and Ice....

Laura Kiniry

American Serengeti: Wildlife Wonders of Yellowstone

When wildlife enthusiast Dan Barr found out that members of one of Yellowstone’s larger wolf packs, Junction Butte, had been spotted in the national park’s...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Finding New Life in a Pandemic. I Call That "Hope."

We’re living in an age of great biodiversity loss. And we’re trying to make our way through a worldwide pandemic on top of it. Some days, it seems like life...

Emily Goodheart

Wildflower Season in Alaska

More than 1,500 species of wildflowers color the Alaskan landscape. Bursting forth from lush valleys and alpine meadows during the northern summer, the flora...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

A Sense of Rhythm: Birds, Lemurs, Whales and Us

You probably do it in the car. Some of us do it in the shower. And when no one else is home, a good number of us might even do it in front of the mirror with...

Michelle Peters

Where to See the Northern Lights in Norway and Finland

Witnessing the dancing glow of the northern lights sits atop many adventure-minded travelers’ bucket lists. Such a spectacular natural phenomenon has the...

Cathy Brown

Top Places to See Wild Australian Animals Down Under

Australia is known for its gorgeous sunny weather, stunning natural landscapes, high-quality wine and friendly, laid-back locals. It’s also known for its...

Cathy Brown

Top Animals to See On the Great Barrier Reef: Meet the Great Eight

African safaris may have their flashy Big Five, but the Great Eight of Australia easily give those land mammals a run for their money. The Great Eight are the...

Joel Centano

Sri Lankan Animals to See on an Island Safari

Talk about a small fortune: Although Sri Lanka spans only 25,000 square miles, it shelters Asia’s richest density of mammal, reptile, amphibian and flowering...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Drones: Weighing Whales and Assessing Associations

Baleen whales, which include species such as blue and gray whales, are the largest animals on Earth. Their hefty body masses, in fact, are central to their...

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