Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Glacier Ice Is the Most Beautiful Blue in Nature

There’s something about the blue color of glacier ice that leaves a lasting impression. It may be because glacier-blue is a hue that can’t be duplicated...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Emoji: the New Language of Adventure and Travel Writing?

  In case you can’t read the sentence in the image below, I’ll translate it for you: “I love the snows of Antarctica and the glaciers of Greenland. And...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: The Sun Bear, “He Who Likes to Sit High”

It’s ironic that an animal whose name includes the word sun would be a creature of the night. But once darkness descends, the Malayan sun bear (Helarctos...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Yellowstone Bear Bathtub

It seems that the snow monkeys of Japan aren’t the only animals that seek out baths. In 2016, National Geographic set up some camera traps at the “bear...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Eastern Cougars Declared Extinct. Will It Help Reintroduction Efforts?

Eastern cougars (Puma concolor couguar) were officially declared extinct last week, on January 22, 2018. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has now...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Outdoor Industry Uses Its Power to Save Our Public Lands

In early December 2017, Patagonia—the outdoor clothing and gear company for silent sports—took a major stand. When Christmas shoppers looking for gifts...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Starling Shapes in the Sky

European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) are now common birds in the United States; and sometimes, as they say, familiarity breeds contempt. Loud, boisterous and...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Heroic Age of Exploration and Our Not-So-Gutsy Times

Big dreams of adventure were not uncommon in the late 1800s and early 1900s, a time known as the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration. But one adventurer may have...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

When Playing, Native American Children Are More Likely to Pretend to Be Wildlife

I read about something today that may seem like a small thing to know in the midst of all the news in our lives. But perhaps, deep down inside it, you’ll find...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Walking on Clouds in Grand Canyon National Park

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is a natural wonder without equal in the world. Here, erosion has crafted both beautifully graceful and strikingly sharp forms,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Despite Cold Temperatures, the Earth Burns and the Arctic Is Lost

It’s the day after New Year’s, and we’re just entering into 2018. In Times Square last night, according to the Associated Press, it was the second-coldest New...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: A Post-Holiday, Hot-Springs Retreat with Japan’s Snow Monkeys

The Christmas holiday is over—just barely. Feeling a little exhausted after all the preparations, family gatherings and parties? Then, a nice soak in a hot...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: The Reverence of Zion National Park

It was love at first sight when I met Utah's Zion National Park. With its massive, rock behemoths and soothing-sounding, dripping-water canyons that sprout...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

“Bird Years” and the Year of the Bird, 2018

Wildlife science has many measurements; for example, “carrying capacity,” “depredations” or “translocations.” But there’s a new scale I recently came across:...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

106-Year-Old Fruitcake Found in Antarctica

For a food that has been around at least since the Middle Ages, fruitcakes certainly have their share of detractors. The long list of jokes about fruitcakes—a...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: the Aurora Borealis over Scotland

The northern lights—also known as the aurora borealis—have been around since the Earth formed an atmosphere more than four billion years ago. The dinosaurs...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

2017: Warm Fall, Cold Winter. It’s Still Climate Change.

Fall 2017 will officially come to a close in just about two weeks. It was probably one of the warmest falls that you can remember. That’s why it may be hard...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Creating a New National Park: Possible or Pipe Dream?

Today, in the current political climate, with national parks falling into disrepair because of budget cuts and parks and monuments threatened with downsizing,...

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