Nature & Wildlife Stories

Asian Elephants Have Distinct Personalities Similar to Ours

Anyone who has ever adopted a cat or dog into the family knows that each pet is distinctive. One of your dogs, for example, may have loved to spend all day at...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

A City Park Visit Lifts Your Mood as Much as Christmas

Santa Claus has long been known as the world’s biggest spreader of happiness and joy, but he now has some competition when it comes to eliciting smiles on...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Antarctica Snow Is Made of Stardust

There’s something special about snow. Snow days. Snow forts. Snowmen. Snowshoeing. Sledding. Walking in a winter wonderland. And every winter, when it looks...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Botswana’s Changing Lands: Elephants Not to Blame

The African nation of Botswana is believed to have the world’s largest population of wild elephants. While the exact number is hard to pinpoint, estimates are...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Three Laws I’d Enact If I Ruled the World

With the presidential election coming up next week, I can’t help but think about the future of our world—mostly the next four years—and what it will look...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Elephant Poaching in the Pandemic

You probably already know the perilous position that the world’s elephants are currently negotiating. The International Union for Conservation of Nature...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Patagonia Ice and the Pandemic Stories It Will Tell

With temperatures predicted to top 90 degrees Fahrenheit all week in Wisconsin where I live, I, of course, have been thinking about ice. For the past two...

WWF

Top 10 Underwater Wildlife Encounters in the Galápagos

By Hallie Sacks, WWF-US The Galápagos offers incredible wildlife encounters including bumbling blue-footed boobies, playful seal colonies, and iconic giant...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Madagascar’s Dwindling Forests and Their Linked Lemurs

Imagine that you are lactose intolerant, and then you discover that all of the grocery stores in your vicinity sell only dairy products. That’s how a Duke...

WWF

Update: Wildfires in Brazil

By Karl Egloff, WWF The Pantanal has fascinated me since I first learned about it in a documentary ten years ago. It is a world of...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Good News for Wildlife: Rare South American Bush Dogs Spotted in Costa Rica

Stories of animals venturing into and enjoying new places have been one bright spot during the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic of 2020. But even before we had...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

COVID-19 and Feeling Out Friendships—of the Dolphin Kind

I had a much-needed get-together with a longtime friend over the weekend—via Zoom, of course, during these coronavirus times and after at least five...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Pandemic Ponderings: 25 Phenomenal Facts about our Planet

Since 1970, the annual Earth Day has been a time for us to reflect on the beautiful planet, the third from the sun, that we call home. Twenty years after that...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

City Plans to Consider Nature’s Impact on Mental Health

There are two astonishing facts about how we live that I think are closely related. The first is that by 2050, two of every three people on Earth will reside...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Working at Home? Look at Cute Baby Animals and Get More Done

A lot of us are working from home right now; and if you happen to be someone who’s not used to the freelance life, it may be harder than you imagined. After a...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Spy Hummingbird Captures Footage of Magnificent Monarch Swarm in Mexico

In this astounding clip from the PBS Nature miniseries Spy in the Wild, a drone camera disguised as a hummingbird journeys into the center of a monarch...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Connection with Nature as a Child Means a Healthier Adult

Seeking out the natural world—and the wildlife that occupies it—is a good way to cope with the coronavirus pandemic and its resultant shelter-in-place edicts....

Natural Habitat Adventures

Staff Picks: 15 Nature Documentaries to Watch Right Now

We’ve all been staying at home for a few weeks now, and you may have burned through all the binge-worthy TV shows on your watch list. So, what to tune in to...

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