Candice Gaukel Andrews

Contrary World: Science Education, Pipelines and Wildlife

Now, when I wake up in the mornings, I feel as if I’m just about to step foot into a truly either-or, binary-only, black-or-white, contrary world; a world...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: The Case for Going on a Mind Trip

There’s a type of trip you can go on anytime you want. It doesn’t cost anything, and it’s guaranteed to spark your creativity and to give you all the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Let Your Mind Wander: Those “Travels” Are Good for You

Mindfulness is a buzzword today. It refers to the notion that we should strive to keep our minds fully attending to and totally aware of what’s happening and...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Concrete Jungles Store Carbon Dioxide, But Is It Enough?

Called the “lungs of the world,” our planet’s forests store more carbon dioxide in their leaves, soil and wood than is contained in the Earth’s entire...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Endangered Honduras Frogs Get a New Health Clinic

Across the globe in the past few decades, an invasive chytrid fungus has been devastating amphibian populations. While scientists aren’t sure how the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Warming Oceans Due to Climate Change Causing Seabird Deaths

Recently, in late 2016, hundreds of tufted puffins washed up dead on shores along the Bering Sea in Alaska. Earlier last year, tens of thousands of dead...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Animal Privacy Rights: Monitoring Wildlife Out of Existence

As the field of electronic wildlife-tracking has grown, so has our knowledge about the lives of animals. Through GPS collaring and trail cams, we’ve learned...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Why Greenland’s Ice Is So Quickly Melting

Science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson authored a trilogy of futuristic eco-thrillers that I really enjoyed reading. In the three books, titled Forty...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Climate Change: The Consequences of a Canceled Conference

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, planned to hold a Climate and Health Summit, set for February 14-16,...

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Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

Polar Bear Photos – What’s Your Favorite?

Meet "The King of the Arctic," the mighty polar bear—in photos and on a Tundra Lodge Photography Expedition! At Natural Habitat Adventures, we believe that...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Anthropocene: Dawn of the Age of Humans or Demise of the Earth?

It’s the beginning of a brand-new year, and—in geological terms—it may be the start of a new name for our era. The International Union of Geological Sciences,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Wear Lionfish Jewelry to Protect the Atlantic Ocean

Lionfish, a colorful native of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans (the Indo-Pacific region) have now taken up what could become permanent residence in the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Rent a Wild Animal in Australia: A Conservation Innovation?

Allowing wildlife—a public resource—to be transferred into the hands of private operations isn’t a new idea. Many U.S. states allow the practice to generate...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Wildlife Labor: Using Eagles to Combat Drones

From employing dogs to protect our airports and track endangered species to using ravens to replant the forests we destroy, using animals to do our work isn’t...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: “Hearing Beyond” in Natural Landscapes

When the world gets to be too much, when we get too tired of hearing constant messages and always being tuned in, there’s nothing like heading out to a...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Science-Based Conservation under Attack in 2017

We’ve closed the books on 2016. It’s natural to want to assess the past year, now that we’ve made it through to the end. In the past 12 months, there has been...

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Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

Go Tell a Polar Bear How Much of the Arctic You’re Melting!

Scientists can now measure individuals' direct contributions to global climate change—and the results are staggering. According to a recent paper published in...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

New Year’s 2017: Should “Auld” Acquaintance Be Forgot? I Think Not.

Traditionally, throughout the world on New Year’s Eve, we all join in the singing of “Auld Lang Syne.” The song, whose title roughly translates as “for old...

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