Nature & Wildlife Stories

Turquoise Lakes & Alpine Meadows of Banff & Yoho National Parks

As you venture forth into the Canadian Rockies, you’ll be entering a realm of turquoise lakes and wildflower meadows. Grand mountains rise into the clouds,...

Emily Goodheart

The Golden Eagle: A Luxury Train Trip Across the Arctic

As you prepare for your trip to the European Arctic by luxury train, harken back to the days of Imperial Russia on a city tour through the streets of St....

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: The Somewhat Noble Call of a Snow Leopard

We’re all familiar with this movie scene: a bald eagle soars overhead in a wild, Western-type, wide-open landscape, and we hear the iconic, piercing, strong...

Emily Goodheart

Highlights of Maine’s Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park

Nat Hab's Maine Coastal Explorer tour takes travelers on an idyllic journey from Portland to Acadia National Park. Here are five highlights visitors will...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

People and Wildlife Need Each Other for Good Health

Here, looking out from the Anthropocene, we tend to regard nature as something other than ourselves. Wild places and wildlife, it seems, are commodities to be...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

You Don’t Have to Be a Nature Expert to Love It

There’s the old maxim that you must know something to love it. And we’ve certainly heard that regarding nature: that if we don’t expose people—particularly...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Assessing the Beliefs of Animals

If you asked any wildlife fan or pet owner if animals have beliefs, I’m guessing their answers would almost all fall within the “yes” category, based on...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Nature Is a “Happy Place” for Children

When children were recently asked to draw their “happy places,” more than half of them created drawings that included aspects of nature and outdoor spaces,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Loudest Bird on the Planet Lives in the Amazon

Some animals are known for being loud; for example, howler monkeys are said to be aptly named. When a number of them let loose their lungs in concert, the din...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Giraffe-African Savanna Relationship: It’s Complicated

Much like the beneficial but complicated effects that the wolves of Yellowstone National Park exert upon their environment, recent research is beginning to...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Recording the “Voices” of Utah’s Red Rocks

Rocks are unmoving. They are solid and stoic, massive and stolid; forever dependable as an essential part of the Earth’s crust. Promontories and peaks, cliffs...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Wildlife Research Prospers in the Pandemic

This is National Wildlife Week, an annual celebration of the beauty and diversity of America’s wildlife. Started in 1938, this event encourages people across...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Color of Your Clothing and How It Affects Animal Behavior

If you love nature, wildlife-watching is probably one of your greatest joys. And because you care about animal welfare, you most likely try to ensure that...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Natural Environment—and the People Who Depend on It

Even if you don’t know much about the science regarding COVID-19, you probably can’t escape the fact that the disease has caused major changes in your...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

World Wildlife Day: Wildlife’s Value—Now and Even after Death

Tomorrow, March 3, we’ll recognize the eighth World Wildlife Day, which was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly (U.N.G.A.) at its 68th session...

Elissa Poma

10 Facts About Sea Otters

From a distance, the line of black bobbing forms in the waters just off the coast of Alaska look like flotsam, or driftwood entangled in kelp. But upon closer...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Snow Leopards and Conservation Travel in Ladakh, India

Insights from India Expedition Leader Surya Ramachandran Ladakh, the Indian trans-Himalaya, is one of the last bastions of Tibetan Buddhism in the 21st...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Above the Tree Line in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

I once walked on the moon. It was remote and windy and bare; the kind of landscape that seems to call to me. This “moon,” though, wasn’t off Earth. It was...

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