Spot Migratory Marvels & Resident Rarities: Year-Round Birding in Iceland
Rebecca Self
Where does the Arctic tern, known for its extraordinary annual migration from the Antarctic to the Arctic, spend its summers? Like many of us, it visits Ic...
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10 Inspiring Wildlife Wins Across Great Britain
Rebecca Self
Across the rolling hills of England and the rugged highlands of Scotland, conservationists, scientists and local communities are working to restore nature ...
50 Fast Facts About Iceland
Rebecca Self
Iceland is a study in contrasts—no other place offers its mix of geological drama, wild beauty and intense contrasts in such a compact space. Tucked just b...
Greenland Tipping Points: Past, Present and Future
Candice Gaukel Andrews
On August 4, 2026, a Manhattan-sized ice island broke away from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier after years of progressing fractures had weakened its floatin...
5 Strange Species to See in Brazil’s Pantanal
Maddi Higgins
National Geographic called Brazil’s Pantanal “the Wild Wet,” an appropriate name for a vast area of untouched wetlands teeming with wildlife. The region ha...
How to Spot Jaguars in the Wild in Brazil’s Pantanal
Megan Brief
More than 1,200 rivers converge to feed the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland. That’s 42 million acres of aquatic habitat spread across three ...
How to Get Wall-Worthy Pictures of Africa’s Great Migration
Samantha Miller
The Serengeti and Maasai Mara are the stage for the largest overland wildlife migration on Earth, and for wildlife enthusiasts and photographers, Natural H...
Bolts from the Blue: Sky and Sea Migration Shockers
Candice Gaukel Andrews
I’m not a fan of escaping winter; in fact, I think it’s an endangered “species” that we need to cherish while we still have it. But millions of birds appea...
September Skies, Swallowing Stars and a Shining Earth
Candice Gaukel Andrews
There are so many reasons to love the nighttime sky. For one, there’s the peace that sitting in the dark and watching the stars brings you. Then, there’s t...
Five Cubs and a Comeback: Where Wild Tiger Numbers Are Rising in Asia
Rebecca Self
A tigress steps through a forest in northeast China, followed by five striped cubs. The camera trap footage lasts only moments, but it tells a story decade...
6 Pygmy Wildlife Species and Where to Find Them
Laura Kiniry
When it comes to wildlife, the term ‘pygmy’ refers to animals that are smaller in size than their more typical counterparts. In many cases, these reduced m...
Discover the Desert Secrets of the Southwestern United States
Megan Brief
Have you ever seen a greater short-horned lizard scrape its crown of spines along a canyon rim? Smelled the fresh spray of a cascading spring? Heard the lo...
Conservation Stories
10 Inspiring Wildlife Wins Across Great Britain
Rebecca Self
Across the rolling hills of England and the rugged highlands of Scotland, conservationists, scientists and local communities are working to restore nature ...
Five Cubs and a Comeback: Where Wild Tiger Numbers Are Rising in Asia
Rebecca Self
A tigress steps through a forest in northeast China, followed by five striped cubs. The camera trap footage lasts only moments, but it tells a story decade...
6 Pygmy Wildlife Species and Where to Find Them
Laura Kiniry
When it comes to wildlife, the term ‘pygmy’ refers to animals that are smaller in size than their more typical counterparts. In many cases, these reduced m...
The Singing Lemurs of Madagascar
Megan Brief
Often referred to as the “eighth continent,” the island nation of Madagascar has developed its own distinct ecosystems and extraordinary wildlife since it ...
Wildfire Prescription: Prescribed Burns
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Wildfires are complicated. On one hand, they can be extremely destructive forces. On the other, they are natural events that certain animals and plants hav...
Urgent: Help Protect the Bears of Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park!
Natural Habitat Adventures
Two years ago, we asked you to speak up against a proposed mining project threatening Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park and its extraordinary wildlife. Now...
Serengeti Calling
Emily Goodheart
Driving across the plains of the Serengeti, every sense becomes sharpened: eyes alert as you scan the horizon, inhaling the mingling scents of lemon bush a...
Why Botswana Is a Model for Ecotourism Around the World
Michelle Peters
Conservation Through Travel: How Botswana Leads in Sustainable Safaris In today’s world of mindful travel, more explorers are asking how their journeys imp...
Why Milkweed Matters: A Guide to Growing Monarch Habitat
Rebecca Self
Does it seem to you that all of a sudden, people across North America are talking about milkweed? Lately, stories about milkweed and monarch butterflies h...
A Journey With Monarchs, Milkweed and More
WWF
Written by Ariana Bowman, WWF’s Gift Planning Senior Development Officer As we navigated through the lush forest landscape on horseback and then on foot, a...
Sustainability Goals and How We Can Achieve Them
Candice Gaukel Andrews
We may already be living far beyond what the Earth can sustainably support, suggests the writers of a brand-new study, who analyzed more than 200 years of ...
From Childhood Dream to PhD: How an Earthwatch Expedition Sparked a Career in Marine Biology
Earthwatch Expeditions
Aaron Judah wanted to be a marine biologist from the time he was three. Two decades later, he’s a PhD candidate studying deep-sea biodiversity around the g...
