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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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Peril to Our Public Lands: Privatization

This week, on Thursday, August 25, the National Park Service will celebrate its centennial. This year has been filled with campaigns and events to commemorate...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: A Bell That “Speaks” for Those That Are Extinct

Bells have served as communication devices since ancient times. Throughout history, various cultures have reshaped and remodeled them to express different...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Memorial to Loss: the Mass Extinction Monitoring Observatory

We’re currently living in the midst of what scientists call the sixth mass extinction, the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. But the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Mining vs. Monument: Which Will We Choose for the Grand Canyon?

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of the planet’s Seven Natural Wonders. More than a mile deep, the canyon runs for 277 river miles, which are protected as...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: British Columbia Humpbacks May Soon Lose Ocean Quiet

In some of the last quiet, pristine waters on the British Columbia Coast, humpback whales are making a comeback. In the mid 1960s, when Canada stopped whaling...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Finding the Sound of Silence in Glacier Bay National Park

The quietest place you may ever experience is next to a little pond off the Forest Trail in Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. Hiking there just a couple of...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Piper, the Airport Runway Dog

For travelers, wildlife strikes to airplanes are no laughing matter. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the number of wildlife strikes to...

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