Candice Gaukel Andrews

Humpback Whales Are Gathering in Huge Numbers. Why?

Whales are complex creatures with very large brains. We are only just beginning to understand small portions of their highly developed cultures. Among the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

A Labor Day Weekend Video Thought: Sometimes, It Truly Is a Wonderful World

On Monday, September 4, Americans will celebrate Labor Day, the national holiday that was instituted in 1894 and which pays tribute to the social and economic...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

99 Percent of Us Want Our National Parks and Monuments Protected, but Downsizing Looms

In quiet places, we yearn for absolution. But peace swiftly flees. It’s not surprising that 99.2 percent of us want our national parks and monuments to...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

African Wild Dogs Are the First Heat-Adapted Species Shown to Be Suffering from Climate Change

Polar bears struggling to find the ice floes they need for hunting and survival became the icon of climate change and our rapidly warming planet decades ago....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: Watch Tigers Being Released into the Wild

Watching wild animals being returned to their natural habitats after an accident or injury is immensely gratifying and often thrilling. Restoring even just a...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Be a Wildlife Naturalist During August’s Solar Eclipse

On Monday, August 21, 2017—for the first time in nearly a century—a total solar eclipse will cross the United States from coast to coast. A solar eclipse...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: First Bison Calf Is Born on Wind River Reservation

Arapaho and Shoshone people on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming—2.2 million acres of tribal lands—released 10 genetically pure bison on November 3, 2016....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Losing Wildlife Hurts Biodiversity—and Our Bottom Lines

Wildlife tourism—tourism specifically based on encounters with undomesticated animals—accounts for 20 to 40 percent of the total $1 trillion annual, global...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Larsen Ice Shelf Breakoff: Our Future in Ice

A gigantic iceberg has just broken off from Antarctica’s massive Larsen C Ice Shelf. The berg began its independent life sometime in the middle of July 2017....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: The Lost California Grizzlies

Although prominently featured on the California flag, a wild grizzly bear hasn’t been seen in the state since the 1920s. In the early 1800s, about 50,000...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Grizzly Bears Just Lost Federal Protections

Later this month, in late July 2017, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears outside Yellowstone National Park and nearby Grand Teton National Park will...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Climate Change Action Figures: Our Governors and Mayors

The United States has officially left the Paris Agreement on climate change, the 2015 pact in which more than 150 nations pledged to curb greenhouse gas...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: A Concrete Solution for Fighting Climate Change

There’s a song I think of every July. It’s titled “Summer in the City,” and it was recorded by The Lovin’ Spoonful way back in 1966. Some of the lyrics go...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Needing Trees: Giant Sequoia National Monument and a Forested City

Today is the Fourth of July, the day we celebrate the founding of the United States and all the things that make our nation unique. More than 150 years ago,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: Watch as Robotic Animals Secretly “Spy” on Wildlife

Camera traps, GPS tracking and radio-collaring are all tools that researchers have traditionally used to study the wildlife that shares the planet with us....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Quickly Losing Protections: Our Birds, Lands and Oceans

One hundred and eleven years ago, the American Antiquities Act of 1906 was passed. It authorizes the president to designate federally managed lands as...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Good News for Climate Change: World’s First Carbon-Capturing Plant Opens

In 628 months, there hasn’t been a cool one. That’s more than 52 years. “Global warming has made cold scarce,” writes Brian Kahn in an April 19, 2017, article...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Rediscovering Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree”

While cleaning one of my bookshelves yesterday, I found a copy of the children’s classic The Giving Tree. It’s hard to believe it’s been 53 years since author...

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