Candice Gaukel Andrews

May 4 Is Bird Day: Watch Birds in Their Natural Habitats

One of the many things I like about birds is that they are wildlife that is easily accessible no matter where you live. While you may not be able to see...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Earth Day 2019: Share Your Favorite, Coolest Nature Video

Next Monday, April 22, 2019, the world will mark its 49th Earth Day. The first Earth Day, held on April 22, 1970, was inspired by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Owls Have Heads Designed for Hearing

The silent flight of owls is pure beauty and grace in motion. In fact, in order to lessen the noise levels of airplanes, aeronautics designers are studying...

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Emily Goodheart

Our Planet Book Review | A Call to Action to Save Our Wild Places

Our Planet takes us on a journey through the earth’s biological realms, highlighting its rarest creatures and hidden natural wonders. This photographic...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Identifying Birds by Color Patterns

Last week, here in the Midwest in mid-March, I spotted my first robin of the year. My mother used to say that seeing a robin was a sure sign that spring...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Cockatoos That Drum for the Love of Music

For many of us, music is so much more than just mere entertainment. We use it to wake ourselves up, to make our morning commute go quicker, to motivate us, to...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: The Natural Worlds of Antarctica and the Falklands

Well into this very cold winter—though still far from its end—I like to dream about the summer that’s happening some other place now, down at the bottom of...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Grasslands: A Lot More Than Just Flyover Country

Across the world, they go by many names: downs, prairies, pampas, rangelands, steppes, savannas or velds. But what all of these landscapes have in common is...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Wilderness: Lost and Found

Today, little more than 20 percent of the world can still be considered “wilderness.” That’s not a lot, especially when you weigh the benefits that those few...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Year-Round Land of Evergreens: the Taiga

It’s mid-January, the time some people call the “doldrums,” a period of feeling low energy and a lack of motivation after the Christmas and New Year season of...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Using Drone Photography to Protect the Arctic

Growing up in the Arctic regions of Canada made a lasting impression on National Geographic Young Explorer Nansen Weber. When he wasn’t out guiding guests who...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Losing Urban Trees—and the Wildlife that Depends on Them

We need to learn to tolerate a bit of messiness when it comes to our urban neighborhoods and landscapes. And I’m not talking about litter on our sidewalks,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Travelers, Tread Lightly—the Palau Giant’s Message

If you love to travel, you’ve probably collected a lot of stamps in several, worn-out passports. The one you received from the island nation of Palau,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Literally “Talking Turkey” on This Thanksgiving

When someone says he or she wants to “talk turkey” with you, it usually means that you’re in for a frank, straightforward and serious discussion. But if...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Giving Tuesday: Saving 30 Percent of Earth by 2030

Some scientists, such as American biologist, naturalist, theorist and author E. O. Wilson, say that a majority of wild species will go extinct if humans don’t...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

We’re Losing Wilderness. And It’s A Loss to Science.

Today, it’s not only animal and plant species that we’re losing at an alarming rate. We’re losing wilderness; everywhere, all over the world. In fact,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: The Mysterious Machu Picchu in High Definition

Encircled in mists and surrounded by emerald, forested slopes, the long-ago Inca city of Machu Picchu in Peru wears an even heavier cloak of mystery. Although...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Self-Driving Vehicles Could Save Animal Lives

"New England Boy’s Song About Thanksgiving Day," based on a poem by Lydia Maria Child, published in 1844. Ever since that time, we’ve associated Thanksgiving...

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