Candice Gaukel Andrews

Travel Tale: Glacier National Park and the Promise of a Highway

Before I took my first trip to Glacier National Park, I had pretty high expectations for one of its most famous features, Going-to-the-Sun Road. I would think...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: Great Blue Heron Brawl

A great blue heron is one of my favorite birds to spot while canoeing in Wisconsin rivers. Largest of the North American herons, this bird has long, graceful...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

New Climate Study Advises Leaving Fossil Fuels in the Ground. But Will We?

At the most recent United Nations Climate Change Conference, held in Lima, Peru, in December 2014, more than 190 countries—including the United...

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About Galapagos

Crisis Averted! The Charles Darwin Foundation Raises $1.5 Million in Emergency Funding

The Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) is back in business! Not that they ever actually went out of business, but things were looking grim back in December, when...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: New, 3-D Map of Greenland’s Ice Sheet Just Released

Norwegian-born Erik the Red was either a great marketer or just a truthful traveler, depending on which stories you choose to believe. Growing up, you...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Travels in Greenland: A Photo Journal

Of all the places I’ve traveled to, Greenland is the most complicated, I think. While there are commonalities with other spots in the world, Greenland always...

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WWF

Botswana: From Desert to Delta

Rachel Kramer is a Program Officer for Wildlife Conservation and TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network. A friend and I steal away from work and...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Should Nonnative Species Be Introduced as Biocontrols?

For decades now, climate change has been altering habitats and causing a major shift of ecosystems northward. Unable to adjust quickly enough, some...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: If Whales Swam Among Us, Would We Care More for Them?

Big, charismatic animals, such as polar bears and bison, are the ones that seem to grab our hearts—sometimes to the exclusion of other, well-deserving but...

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Maddi Higgins

A Rainbow of Marine Protected Areas

Only 2.3% of the world's oceans are protected. That's why WWF works to create Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). An MPA is an area designated to protect marine...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Climate Change: Political Science vs. Soil Science

Americans may finally be getting more concerned about climate change, according to the Pew Research Center. In a brand-new survey about policy priorities that...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: New Zealand Robins Demonstrate Their Counting Ability

My dog can count. I’m sure of this fact. After her daily walk, if she doesn’t receive precisely two treats, I will hear about it. If I try to shortchange her...

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Tania Curry

10 WWF Success Stories of 2014

2014 was a successful year for conservation and WWF's work around the world. None of it could have been possible with the support of WWF's members. Read about...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

New Year: Top 10 Things I Learned about Nature in 2014

The year 2014 is now in its final hours.Traditionally, during these last, waning days, we look back on what kind of year we just had, what we accomplished and...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Happy Holidays to All Who Share This Pale, Blue Dot

Of all the beautiful nature photographs that you have seen over the years, perhaps none is more meaningful than the one titled Pale Blue Dot. The photographer...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Cli-Psy: Why We Find It So Hard to Accept Climate Change Facts

Have you heard of “cli-psy”? It’s a new field of study about why we have trouble accepting climate change facts. Watch this short video explaining the reasons.

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

When Going Green Isn’t Good: Climate Change and the Green Revolution

Feeding the world’s population in the coming years is going to be a challenge. The United Nations estimates that by 2100, there will be an average of 11...

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Tania Curry

Show-and-Tell Develops Young, Budding Travel Conservationists

Anna and Alex confidently stood in front of a classroom full of rowdy elementary age kids. As newly-minted, pseudo polar bear ambassadors, they presented a...

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