by Amelia Clarke
Anyone fortunate enough to dive on a healthy coral reef will immediately notice the array of noises created by its inhabitants. Pops, crackles, crunches, chirps, hums and snaps produce a vibrant cacophony…
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Great critter cam photos are a matter of luck rather than photographic skill — although a little bit of editing magic can turn a mediocre photo into a great one.
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You can break a sweat in Louisiana without moving — just standing outside in the thick of the humidity is enough. If you’re moving, it’s not even a matter of minutes before you are covered in sweat. Mix…
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In the spring of 2020, as my planned summer of glorious sunshine-y fieldwork disintegrated under the sudden and crushing weight of a global pandemic, I flew home to Singapore. An ocean away from Stanford…
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On the first day of autumn, I’m riding through a changing forest — tall, deep green ponderosas interspersed with the butter-gold of aspens, and shrubs ranging from pale crimson to deep russet to coral…
Read moreby Barri W. Sanders
As of July 2020, eight out of ten COVID-19 deaths in the US were people 65 or older. I’m 81 years old.
Read moreby Tamara Blazquez Haik
En la Ciudad de México existen aproximadamente 2254 especies silvestres, lo que incluye insectos y otros artrópodos, anfibios, reptiles, aves y mamíferos.
Read moreby Tamara Blazquez Haik
Mexico City is home to approximately 2,254 wildlife species including insects and other arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
Read moreby Michael Washburn
Here on my sliver of Covid-cleared beach, among the tracks of crabs and the prints of plovers and scattered scraps of human carelessness, a larger story of wonder and waste is opening. It’s one we live…
Read moreby Elliot Connor
Jane Goodall speaks of her dog Rusty as her greatest teacher; Gerald Durrell wrote of his dog Roger as his constant companion. Although I don’t have a dog, I do have a menagerie of other animals that inspire…
Read moreby Malee Baker Oot
Gravel crackles under my tires and horseflies ping off the windows as I slow to a stop beside a mound of black bear scat, near the northeastern edge of North Carolina’s 152,000-acre Alligator River National…
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