In 1987, wildlife veterinarian Mark Pokras was in his office at Tufts University in Massachusetts when a colleague from New ...

Stepping onto Burton Island is like entering a parallel universe where cars don’t exist, traffic is a foreign concept, and the loudest sound you’ll hear is probably a loon calling across the water or ...

This Lake Erie town sits where the Ashtabula River meets the big water. The meeting creates a natural harbor that birds absolutely love. Herons stand like statues waiting for fish to swim by. The ...

Killing the protected animals may be the only way to stop them from eating too many of the Pacific Northwest’s endangered ...

Even hardened Londoners can get a kick out of the capital’s main attractions, because as well as being stone-cold classics ...

Long before meteorology and climate science, Irish people looked to the natural world to forecast the weather and make sense ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Ana Gonzalez and cellist Yo-Yo Ma about their new podcast Our Common Nature from WNYC, which connects music with nature and place.

Nightingales are among the most celebrated of all animal singers, no doubt earning their place through the complexity of ...