Candice Gaukel Andrews

Dog “Detectives” Sniff Out Water Pollution

For thousands of years, dogs have been our best friends, our sources of comfort and happiness, and even our aids in helping to save threatened species. But...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Heartbeats and Songs of Trees

I’m a tree hugger from way back; in fact, you could say I was hugging trees before tree hugging was cool. So when a book titled The Songs of Trees recently...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: When Earth Was Warmer than We Have Ever Known

Close your eyes and picture a vivid green, lush rain forest that’s teeming with life. If I asked you where you imagined you were, your answer would probably...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

“Fernweh”: A Farsickness or Longing for Unseen Places

You know when you’ve been away too long. You find yourself feeling a bit wistful for the comforts and familiarity of home, or you get a knot in your stomach...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Surprising, Four Best Things You Can Do to Combat Climate Change

Perhaps no issue defines our Anthropocene Age more than climate change. The topic has been in news headlines for more than four decades now, ever since U.S....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video Encounters with Mystifying Greenland Sharks

Deepwater, mythic and prehistoric creatures, Greenland sharks inhabit the Atlantic Ocean, from Canada to Norway and off the coast of Scotland. When it comes...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Mysterious Sharks: Great Gatherings and Long Lives

More than 400 shark species inhabit our planet. And while facts about some of them may be well-known to researchers and the rest of us, there are many shark...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Spirit Bear Videos: A Look into Lives of Peace and Harmony

According to legend, Raven went among the black bears and promised that every 10th bear cub would be born white as a reminder of the time when the world was...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Learning the Art of Slow Travel: Sunbathing in Greenland

On a big rock above a crystal-blue and iceberg-filled bay in wild East Greenland, I realized that travel sometimes can mean not moving at all. For several...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: I Suck; You Probably Do, Too

Plastics were originally invented to save animals. Let that fact sink in for a moment because it's sadly ironic. Today, plastic plays a large part in killing...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

New Zealand Builds Gyms for “Problem” Birds

In the United States, it often seems, there is only one method for dealing with “problem” animals. Whether it’s Canada geese, grizzly bears or wolves, our...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Plastic Straws Sent Packing from Scotland and Seattle

There’s a famous, one-word line in the 1967 movie The Graduate, when a well-meaning man advises a young college student, played by actor Dustin Hoffman, to...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Oceans and Plastics Pollution

Our oceans are sometimes referred to as our planet’s forgotten lungs. While forests—which usually get the credit for being the world’s “breathing”...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Small Things about Big Issues: Elephant Trophies Now Again Allowed into the U.S.

Sometimes, it’s the small, quiet things that rightly should command our utmost attention. Such a situation occurred on March 1, 2018, when the U.S. Fish and...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Fossil Finds and Penguin Packs: Final Frontiers Still Found on Earth

When you look at the immense footprints humans have left on this planet, it might lead you to conclude that we’ve trod, explored and exploited almost every...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: When Whales Walked

In our imaginations, nothing symbolizes our seas more than whales. These bigger-than-life creatures imbue our oceans with life, with song and with majesty,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

No More Wild Horses

Whenever I hear that a little piece of the wild has slipped away forever, it saddens me. And another small bit of it vanished recently. Or you could say,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Saiga Antelope Now Victims of Climate Change

In 2015, on the steppes of Kazakhstan, at the crossroads of Asia and Europe, more than 200,000 critically endangered saiga antelope suddenly died in a span of...

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