Travels through Nature

Just in time for Easter 2024, biologists have published a genome for the European brown hare, the original Easter Bunny familiar from Europe

We’re bad at recycling clothing, but that may soon change. And we’re on the cutting edge of repurposing waste CO2 as a carbon-free, transpor

Recently, an online catalogue of Charles Darwin’s complete personal library was released. Today, Darwin’s finches are still teaching us abou

Europe passed several groundbreaking laws for restoring nature, including the European Union’s Nature Restoration Law and England’s Biodiver

Look to the night skies. “STEVE” and the “picket fence” are rivaling the northern lights, and the moon may be entering a new epoch: the Luna

It’s hard to imagine formidable great white sharks as babies. No one has ever seen a very young one in the wild—until now.

Increasingly, we find ourselves moving into the lands of wild animals. Some can’t compete; but surprisingly, others have learned to thrive a

2023 has been named the hottest year on record. But rather than succumb to hopelessness, it’s time to support the transformative pathways al

Your New Year’s Resolution to eat healthier may have failed, but new “takes” on diet have tremendous potential to help address several globa

Despite all the extinction news, we’re finding new species of birds, fish and reptiles and more trees than we ever thought existed. That’s a

Even as the sixth mass extinction accelerates, a new study finds that there is far more biodiversity in our urban backyards than we ever ima

In Mexico, watch a hummingbird robot venture into the heart of a monarch butterfly swarm. And, in ocean waters, drones capture whales playin

2023 set records for high temperatures and fossil fuel emissions. But there’s lots of environmental hope for 2024. We can do this!

Much like accomplishing our climate goals as a nation, achieving our personal New Year’s resolutions may be beyond our control.

Caribou have been using the same Arctic calving grounds for 3,000 years. And that’s at least 1,200 years before Santa ever set up shop at th

What are the characteristics that make specific animals innovative? A new study suggests one of them might be an introverted personality.

Coastal wolves have been observed eating sea otters, but how they got them and the frequency of scavenging versus hunting marine prey were u

Spots and stripes: researchers have recently come up with a simple mechanism to explain how these natural and complicated phenomena form.

Why is there an abundance of species in some places on Earth and a scarcity in others? We may now have an answer to that fundamental ecologi

Bison-reliant, Indigenous peoples have long been connected to buffalo. Surprisingly, the ripple effects of losing their bison kin are still