Nature & Wildlife
Animal Academics: Interspecies Teachers
Teaching was once considered a uniquely human behavior. Today, however, scientists recognize a small but diverse group of species who have the ability to act as instructors.
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Nature & Wildlife
The Revelations of Animal Songs
Songs have power. That was never made clearer to me than when I recently read about some new discoveries involving the songs of animals. Songs can lead us to find rare wonders.
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Nature & Wildlife
Cooperation: Birds, Badgers, Bees and Us
Many Native American communities belong to a clan that identifies with an animal, such as a bear, eagle or turtle. Such four-legged, winged or swimming family members are considered brothers and sisters. Several play major roles in creation stories, and conversations between them and people flow freely.
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Nature & Wildlife
Birds Bring Well-Being
Nearly 1,000 birds were killed in Chicago on October 4, 2023, when they collided with an illuminated glass building. Though mass fatalities of this magnitude are rare, light pollution poses a serious—and growing—threat to migrating birds. We need birds.
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Antarctica & Arctic
Where Antarctica Penguins “Go,” Biodiversity Follows
On first impression, Antarctica may look barren and less biodiverse than most other places on Earth. But in recent years, we’ve learned that the White Continent is actually overflowing with life; that is, if you include the microscopic kind.
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Nature & Wildlife
“Hidden” Birds, Fish, Reptiles and Trees Revealed
Living in a time of almost daily extinction news, we can’t help but feel a little skip in our hearts when we hear of animal species or acres of forests that have newly been found. Anything to tip the scales back to the heavy side of biodiversity is more than fine in my book.
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Conservation
Biodiversity: Big Picture and Backyard
There are big issues and topics that we’ll continue to have to deal with in the upcoming months of 2024, and rapid biodiversity loss in this sixth mass extinction is one of them.
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Nature & Wildlife
Introverted Animals May Be the Most Innovative
It’s taken quite a number of years, but I’ve learned to be a proud introvert; and, well, as a writer, it also kind of comes with the territory. But we humans aren’t the only ones to have introverts among us. Nonhuman animals, too, have their share of “quiet ones.”
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Nature & Wildlife
Thanksgiving: Eating with Gratitude Connects You to Nature
For most of us, Thanksgiving is the only holiday of the year centered on giving thanks for what we already have, our families and our friends. It is also the only holiday I know of that has food as its major focus. For a lot of us, the holiday means eating turkey.
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Nature & Wildlife
It’s Complicated: Cities, Coyotes and California Birds
Cities provide us with many benefits: better educational and employment opportunities, exposure to more diversity and multicultural influences, improved infrastructure and access to public transportation. On the other hand, urbanization and the consequent changes in land use often result in air, land and water pollution; economic inequalities; an increase in health issues; and overcrowding.
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Canada & the North
Canceled Oil Leases in a Quickly Changing Arctic
Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—one of the world’s most breathtaking natural wonders and culturally significant areas—received some much-needed support recently. In early September 2023, President Biden canceled the last seven gas and oil leases there.
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Nature & Wildlife
Among the World’s Animals, We’re Not That Exceptional
Growing up, you probably learned some version of the following: in the animal kingdom, humans are exceptional and unique. Among the one-of-a-kind qualities that we possess are a higher intelligence than all the other creatures on the planet, the ability to use tools and empathy.