Candice Gaukel Andrews

Can National Parks Survive Our Behavior for Another Century?

This was a banner year for our national parks. In 2016, we celebrated 100 years of America’s “best idea,” to quote environmentalist and nature writer Wallace...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Imperiled Corals of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage site located on the northeast coast of...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Bad Economics: Pachyderm Poaching and Refuge Reductions

We are losing animal species at an alarming, unprecedented rate, and our wild places are increasingly coming under attack. If we’re not careful, our planet...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Climate Change Is Changing What We Wear and How It’s Made

Your bedroom closet is about to get a makeover, and it won’t be because you’ve knocked out walls or installed new shelving. And that coat closet in your...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Happy Halloween: Watch Bats Show Off a “Drive to Drink”

Bats and Halloween have been connected for a long time. That could be due to the work of author Bram Stoker, who in his 1897 novel Dracula wrote about a human...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Bushmeat and Locavores: When “Eating Locally” Goes Bad for Going Big

Becoming a locavore—someone who prefers to find and eat local foods—is a growing and, in most cases, healthy trend in the United States. Locavores typically...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Privatizing Wildlife: Dangerous Trend or Economic Necessity?

Fall in Wisconsin, where I live, is colorful. Leaves in our forests turn vivid purple, red and yellow; and deer hunters in our woods dress in vivid orange. As...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Listen to the Howls of Coyotes, the “Song Dogs”

The coyote is often described as the most vocal of North America’s mammals. While there’s a lot of overlap in the sounds that coyotes, dogs and other canid...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Attitudes Toward Wildlife: the Right Kind of Caring?

American attitudes toward wild animals are growing more positive, according to a new study published just last month in the international journal Biological...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Forever Killing Wolves

This is the dirty fact I’ve come to recognize: we humans won’t allow wolves to live on our planet. We won’t stop until the last one of them is gone. If you...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: What’s Warming the Earth—Explained

“July 2016 was the 379th consecutive month with temperatures at least nominally above the 20th-century average,” says the NOAA National Centers for...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Protecting the Woolly Mammoth to Save Today’s Elephants

The woolly mammoth—an animal that went extinct 4,000 years ago—is currently being considered for legal protection under conservation trade rules. “How that...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Silencing Science to Benefit Tourism

Earlier this year, the United Nations (UN), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Union of Concerned...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Finding the Words to Define “Wilderness”

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines wilderness as “a wild and natural area in which few people live.” It’s a simple explanation that succeeds in giving you...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Matter of One Meadow: Yosemite’s New Addition

Yosemite National Park is growing. Here, now, in 2016, that’s a statement I never thought I would be able to make. But last week, on September 7, the National...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

No More Warnings: the Results of Climate Change Are Here

Close your eyes and picture a world with no more dire warnings about climate change and what will happen if we do nothing to stem its tide. Envision seeing no...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Old Photos Allow Us to Watch Greenland Melt

Thanks to some newly discovered aerial photographs from the 1930s, we can now see the retreat of some Greenland glaciers through time. Watch!

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

A New Movement: Personhood for All Animals

Black Lives Matter. Blue Lives Matter. Veterans Matter. You could probably name a dozen other organizations that work to convince us that all human lives have...

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