Candice Gaukel Andrews

“New” Greenland Polar Bears Found

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown, isolated population of polar bears living in Southeast Greenland that has found a unique way to survive.

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Who’s Smarter: Your Domesticated Dog or a Wild Gray Wolf?

Greyhounds have been a part of my life for more than two decades. In fact, in 2019, when my husband and I got the call inviting us to visit the local kennel...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Brown Bears and Polar Bears and Their Tangled Histories

A “time line” of nearly any animal’s existence is an almost-oxymoron, if you ask me. Time lines can make things seem as if they progressed in a linear manner....

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Jennie Lay

Petitioning for Pebble

Now is the critical moment to sign on and support Bristol Bay conservation…again The final battle is intensifying in an epic three-decade struggle between an...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

A Story of Blue Whales and a “Book” of Baleen

A pod of orcas grabbed the headlines in late March 2019. Researchers performing their annual dolphin and whale surveys off the southwestern coast of...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Fearless Animals Will Fare Better in the Face of Climate Change

Without a doubt, we humans are altering the natural environment. Because of our activities, we are now experiencing melting glaciers; rising sea levels;...

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Megan Brief

Spot Dolphins in the Sunshine State Aboard the Solar-Powered Boat, SQUID

SQUID The shortfin squid inhabits the continental shelf and slope waters of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, from Newfoundland to the central east coast of...

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Cathy Brown

Conservation Win: Alaska Oil and Gas Lease Sale 258 Canceled

Nature and wildlife lovers can all breathe a little easier now. The Biden administration has announced it is canceling a proposed oil and gas lease sale in...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

World Environment Day 2022: Defeating Deforestation

“Only one Earth. In the universe are billions of galaxies, in our galaxy are billions of planets, but there is #OnlyOneEarth. Let’s take care of it." That’s...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Highs of Hiking through a Burned Forest

Our relationship with forest fires is complicated. Beginning in 1947, one of the world’s most recognizable characters and one of our nation’s most beloved...

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Cathy Brown

4 Groundbreaking Conservation Wins to Celebrate

Too often, it's easy to get bogged down with disheartening environmental news, but these past weeks gave us many things to smile about and be grateful for....

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Jennie Lay

Biodiversity Matters – Everywhere

Honoring Endangered Species Day in habitats near and far A multi-generational mashup of readers at my local library recently devoured a cli-fi novel. The...

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Jennie Lay

Five Authors Who Champion Conservation

Modern reading recommendations for nature lovers Influential Islamic scholar Hamza Yusuf once said, “Don't ever diminish the power of words. Words move hearts...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Longevity Code: Galapagos Giant Tortoises and Mountain Marmots

While you probably haven’t celebrated it for the past 20 years, World Turtle Day is coming up on May 23. This annual event was created by the American...

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Laura Kiniry

The Nat Hab Earth Day Species Count

It’s a typical spring afternoon in Montana’s Glacier National Park, and the wildlife is buzzing. Grizzly and black bears have awoken from their winter slumber...

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WWF

Nature: The Currency of a Life Worth Living

I traveled to Southern Africa on a Natural Habitat Adventures trip in October 2019, just a few months before COVID-19 crashed into our collective...

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Madison Mitchell

What Are the Great Plains and How Are They Being Protected?

The Northern Great Plains spans more than 180 million acres and crosses five U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. This region is comprised of Montana,...

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Michelle Peters

Sustainable Food: 10 Ways to Eat for the Planet

You’ve heard of the plant-based diet…but have you considered a planet-based diet? The current way Earth’s population consumes its food is not doing us any...

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