Invasive animals pose ‘deep and immediate threat’ to U.S. national parks, study finds
More than half of all U.S. National Parks are overrun with invasive animal species, such as rats, pythons and feral hogs, according to a new study.
What do trees mean to you? Here are 12 ways trees shaped readers’ lives
“In my day-to-day life, I often take the trees around me for granted."…
How ‘America’s perfect tree’ was nearly wiped out
The American chestnut tree, once the dominant tree throughout much of the Eastern United States, bore richly nutritious and sweet-tasting nuts before it was almost entirely wiped out.
3 billion fewer wild birds soar the skies than in 1970, study finds
North America's skies are lonelier and quieter.
British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy has long been known for his unconventional approach to art. In an ongoing project at Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Goldsworthy has created a “walking wall,” assembling and then disassembling the same limestone rocks, moving…
Here’s a look at some of the numbers that define the fires burning in the Amazon.
There are many reasons to be appalled by this year’s Amazon fires, but depleting Earth’s oxygen supply is not one of them.
Walton Ford is a painter whose work examines the relationship between humans and animals in the wild. These creatures, he believes, “would rather be left alone.” As a child, Walton was always inspired by the natural world and would bring…
Hotter oceans are killing corals, not just bleaching them. Then their reef corpses dissolve.
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