Candice Gaukel Andrews

Five Live Critter Cams for Summer Viewing

We just passed the unofficial middle of summer, July 4. With that marker comes a usual complaint: there’s nothing to watch on TV. But now that most regular...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: A Traveler’s Crafty Revenge on Loud Cell Phone Users

Lately, it seems as if we’re encountering more and more bad behavior when we travel. And one of the most annoying habits people engage in that we’ve all had...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Dead Bees on Washington: Does the Environmental “Now” Ever Come?

Just two weeks ago, June 20-26, 2016, we celebrated the annual National Pollinator Week—or you may have observed it if you knew it was National Pollinator...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Family Politics: Ranking Climate Change

My sister and I, like most sisters, share a lot in common. But we don’t always see eye to eye when it comes to politics. Yesterday, she told me that in this...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Could a Parrot Be a Credible Murder Trial Witness?

We’re always delighted when we find evidence of extreme intelligence in the “others,” such as when we learn that crows crack nuts open by using passing cars...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

President Talks about Climate Change in Yosemite National Park: Is It Too Late?

On the day before Father’s Day 2016, President Obama visited Yosemite National Park. The trip was planned as a family vacation, but it also aimed to focus...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

When Signs Aren’t Enough: Walling Off Yellowstone National Park

It seems so simple. If there’s a sign warning you of danger and to “Keep Out,” you should. So how does a 23-year-old, college graduate—who had worked at a...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Father’s Day 2016: My Dad Always Said, “Leave a Place Better than You Found It”

Father’s Day is June 19 this year; and although my father is no longer with us, every year on this special day I reflect on some of the many things he taught...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Plants and People: Moving to Antarctica for Good—or Bad?

With our warming climate, some plants are managing to hitch a ride to Antarctica. Will they colonize and thereby change the continent?

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Films Shot in Fragile Places: Creating Conservationists or Eroding the Environment?

It’s the day after Memorial Day, the unofficial start of the summer season. While the summer solstice is still a ways to go—June 20—after Memorial Day,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: National Parks Embrace Zero Waste

Simply defined, zero waste is a goal where all discarded materials become resources for others to use. It eliminates all discharges to air, land or water that...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

National Parks and Private Partners: A Blueprint for the Future?

Just about a year ago, on June 8, 2015, the carmaker Subaru of America Inc. and the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) announced a partnership....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Bison Named Our National Mammal: Bad Omen for the Species?

We now have a national mammal, and it’s Bison bison. On Monday, May 9, 2016, President Obama signed the National Bison Legacy Act, honoring American bison...

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Video: River Set on Fire in an Area with Fracking

A picture is worth a thousand words—or at least that’s the idea behind the actions of Jeremy Buckingham, a Greens Party member of the Australian Parliament....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

What Size Wilderness?

Scarface is dead. Otherwise known as Bear No. 211, the Yellowstone National Park bruin was shot and killed just outside the park in Gallatin National Forest...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Listen, and You Might Actually Hear Climate Change

The image of a polar bear stranded on an ice floe. Herds of thousands of walruses hauled out on land, deprived of their sunning platforms of choice: sea ice....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: “The Messenger” Movie’s Memo about Songbirds

Imagine a world without birdsong. That’s the scenario a new documentary, titled The Messenger, wants you to envision, because it could actually happen sooner...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Eco-Avengers: Just Monkeywrenching or Ecoterrorism?

When timber framer Will Elwell heard that a natural gas pipeline was going to run through his town of Ashfield, Massachusetts, he decided to take action by...

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