Nature & Wildlife
Arbor Day 2025: Friendship, Health and Agroforestry
Trees are some of my favorite beings on Earth. That’s why I look forward to Arbor Day every year, the national holiday that recognizes the beauty and the importance of trees.
Good Nature Travel Blog
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Nature Photography
Getting Down to the Bones in Patagonia: A Photo Diary
Bones are everywhere in Patagonia. They dry on the brown steppes and jut up from the desert’s gray floor. They protrude like blue spikes through the surface of lakes and bleach white on the ocean’s shore. And, right now, mine are shaking.
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Conservation
Leopards: Diverse Genes, Hyena Dangers and Distinctive Calls
In addition to being beautiful, African leopards are adaptable, elusive and versatile animals. Now, we can add genetically diverse to that list.
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Nature & Wildlife
Proof of Animal Emotions: AI, Mirrors and Survey Results
Do chimpanzees experience grief, do crows seek joy and do elephants show affection?
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Nature & Wildlife
Animals Shape the Earth
Wild animals are not just the inhabitants of the natural world—they are its architects. That’s the exciting finding from a new study that reveals how hundreds of species have shaped the landscapes we depend on, from beavers creating entire wetlands to hippos carving drainage systems.
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News & More
Europe’s New Laws for Restoring Nature
While in recent years environmental laws in the United States have faced some of their most severe challenges and rollbacks, it’s encouraging to hear that Europe is now successfully passing several groundbreaking rules to restore nature.
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Conservation
Social Media: Selfie Searches and Nature Successes
The ubiquitous social media in our lives has its benefits, including allowing us to interact quickly with our loved ones, network with our colleagues and share information almost instantaneously.
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Nature & Wildlife
The Influence of Gophers and the Impacts of Wolves
On the surface, gophers and wolves don’t seem to have much in common. Gophers are small (just a few inches long), burrowing rodents that primarily consume bulbs, roots and other underground plant parts; while wolves (which can reach several feet in length) are much larger predators that hunt and primarily eat meat.
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News & More
Giraffes Could Soon Be Listed as Endangered
The Earth’s tallest living land animals are in trouble. Giraffes, who reach heights of up to 18 feet, are declining at an alarming rate, and trade in wildlife body parts and anthropomorphic climate change are largely to blame. Surprisingly, though, it’s not the world’s rising temperatures that are putting giraffes in jeopardy.
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Nature & Wildlife
Nature in 2025: Aid to Attention, Happiness and Well-Being
In 2024, I started the year by writing about nature: CO2 emissions, temperatures and the optimism a lot of us felt about clean energy technologies with consistent cost declines.
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Nature & Wildlife
Wild Turkey Chicks and Post-Flight Reindeer Feasts
Every year, without fail, Thanksgiving and Christmas seem to come right on top of each other. The four weeks between the two holidays fly by, with hardly enough time to savor one before the other is upon us. Magical, flying reindeer, in other words, quickly follow the turkey feast.
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Nature & Wildlife
The Social Behavior of Animals Changes with Age
If you look at almost any bird identification guide or mammal encyclopedia, you’ll typically see two to three images of any one animal: an adult female, an adult male and, perhaps, a juvenile.