Wildfire Prescription: Prescribed Burns
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...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Candice Gaukel Andrews
A multiple award-winning author and writer specializing in nature-travel topics and environmental issues, Candice has traveled around the world, from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, and from New Zealand to Scotland's far northern, remote regions. Her assignments have been equally diverse, from covering Alaska’s Yukon Quest dogsled race to writing a history of the Galapagos Islands to describing and photographing the national snow-sculpting competition in her former home state of Wisconsin. In addition to being a five-time book author, Candice's work has also appeared in several national and international publications, such as "The Huffington Post" and "Outside Magazine Online."
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Humans May Not Be the Only Animals with Language
The Encyclopedia Britannica currently defines language as “a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed) or written symbols by means of which human bein...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Deserts: Energy, Evolution and Eventual Rain
Deserts are far from the lifeless, slow-growing and always arid places they’re often depicted to be. For example, even in Chile’s ultradry Atacama Desert, ...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Animal Sizes: On Continents, on Islands and Over Time
Some tiny birds on remote Scottish islands are undergoing a dramatic evolutionary transformation. Four isolated populations of British wrens have grown ast...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Celebrating Friendship Day: Buddies in the Wild
In the United States, we celebrate the annual Friendship Day on the first Sunday in August, which this year is August 2. (The globally recognized date esta...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
The Many Animals Who Use Tools
Tool use isn’t unique to humans. Various species across the animal kingdom, including birds, insects and mammals, exhibit the behavior. For example, sea ot...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Managing the Mosquito Months of Summer
July is truly the quintessential summer month. Positioned perfectly at the center of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it features peak sunshine and warm ...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
The Fluidity of Animal Movements
The graceful movements of animals showcase millions of years of evolutionary engineering, combining anatomy, physics and fluidity. From the effortless soar...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Aliens on the Rise and Invaders on the Run
Aliens are certainly in our midst, and invaders are running rampant across the planet. What I mean is, plants are spreading across the globe faster than ev...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Sustainability Goals and How We Can Achieve Them
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 ...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Environmental DNA Is Revolutionizing Wildlife Conservation
From personal testing to discover your roots, connect with long-lost relatives and discover hidden family secrets to blockbuster sci-fi stories and cold-ca...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Savoring and Saving Summer Beaches
Summer will arrive soon, and that means that a lot of you will be thinking about a sunny beach vacation. Humans are instinctively drawn to the sun for its ...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Nature’s Medicines
Today, it might sound hyperbolic to say to the majority of us who are living in urban surroundings that nature’s animals and plants are essential for human...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
The Unsung Giants Among Us
If you were asked to name a giant that now lives among us, you might immediately think of an African elephant, a blue whale, a mountain gorilla, a polar be...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
People Making Positive Change for the Planet
More-than-human animals predate humans on Earth by approximately 500 million to more than 800 million years. While modern humans (Homo sapiens) have existe...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
2025 Is the Earth’s Third Hottest Year: Glaciers, Mountains and Oceans
The year 2025 finished as the third hottest globally (behind 2024 and 2023), according to reports from NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
New Insights into Animal Behavior
It’s typically said that animal behavior is the result of biology and environment. The responses of wildlife are driven by the primal urges to survive and ...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
The Powers and Potentials of Small Mammals
The decline of charismatic and large animals like lions and pandas often captures global attention, but a quieter and perhaps more damaging crisis is unfol...
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