Nature & Wildlife

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...

Antarctica has always been—for lack of another, less trite description—“otherworldly.” It’s clear, clean air and wild, untouched mountains hardly seem part...

It was our second day out driving in our open-air jeep in Botswana’s Kalahari Game Reserve when the raindrops started to fall. As we’d headed out tha...

Often referred to as the “eighth continent,” the island nation of Madagascar has developed its own distinct ecosystems and extraordinary wildli...

Daydreaming of a trip to England quickly conjures the image of sheep grazing on rolling green hills, villages with quiet lanes dotted with thatched cottage...

While I have never considered insects my favorite category of fauna, I have to admit that some “fun facts” about them intrigue me. For example, ants can li...

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...

When traveling, it’s easy to see new landscapes and animals, perhaps check them off a bucket list, snap a photo and then move on. But you’ll walk away with...

The Encyclopedia Britannica currently defines language as “a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed) or written symbols by means of which human bein...

In the northeast corner of England’s Cotswolds, Henry Astor’s family has lived on, farmed and managed over 1,000 acres for three generations. I wanted to t...

Sometimes, the most pastoral landscapes can reveal some of nature’s wildest secrets. Case in point: the refined Cotswold Hills in England. Amid tidy countr...

Best known for its legendary Port wine and storybook scenery, Portugal’s Douro Valley is also one of Europe’s most rewarding regions for bird enthusiasts. ...

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, ...

Botswana encompasses a wide range of ecosystems, from the seemingly barren Makgadikgadi Pans to the Okavango Delta’s intricate network of wetlands and wate...

Some tiny birds on remote Scottish islands are undergoing a dramatic evolutionary transformation. Four isolated populations of British wrens have grown ast...

Our Cessna was 5 minutes north of Maun, Botswana, when the landscape changed dramatically. Gone was the dry savanna scrub that had defined the Kalahari and...

Imagine watching a herd of elephants—all different ages and sizes—wade across the Chobe River at sunset. It’s one of the things that surprised me most duri...

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...