Nature

A Half Mile Underwater on Connecticut’s Eight Mile River

A snorkelling trip on a northeast river reveals a variety of unexpected freshwat...

The Overlooked Carbon Storage Potential of Tidal Marshes

Tidal marshes may not build forests, but they do build soil. And in that soil th...

Animals That Turn White in Winter Face a Climate Challenge

Hares, ptarmigans and Arctic foxes all turn white in winter, but as our planet w...

The Other Tannenbaum: Cutting an Alternative Christmas ...

Kris Millage shares her experience cutting a wild juniper as a Christmas tree. ...

Cool Green Holiday Book Review 2024

Six books — ranging from eels to owls to outdoor adventures — that will make gre...

First Christmas & First Loss

This exerpt from A Cowgirl’s Conservation Journey tells the story of iHeidi Redd...

How do National Zoo animals beat the heat? Bloodsicles ...

When the heat and humidity of the Washington, D.C. summer sends its residents sc...

Smithsonian scientists become shark detectives to track...

When many people think of the Chesapeake Bay, one of the first creatures that co...

Crape myrtle trees aren’t native to the US, but hungry ...

Each year from summer into fall, ornamental crape myrtle trees in the southern a...

Photographing Water for the One of the World’s Driest C...

A photographer captions the merging of modern science and ancient wisdom in the ...