Reading Time: 4 minutes Pollinators are responsible for about one out of every three bites of food people eat. Without them, we would starve
Author: Geoff Carpentier
Don’t squish that spider!
Reading Time: 4 minutes We may be genetically programmed to fear spiders, but they’re here for a reason. Leave them alone to eat other insects
Serenaded by cicadas
Reading Time: 3 minutes Their song is produced by a complex vibrating membrane on their sides and a hollow resonant body cavity
We can – and must – stop our plastic legacy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Countless animals ingest plastics and die. Do we care? Do we care that these plastics are now in the human food chain?
Why have we become a nation of litterbugs?
Reading Time: 4 minutes We have first-rate collection for everything from garbage, to yard waste and recyclables. Yet we continue to litter
Buckets of rain put wildlife in peril
Reading Time: 4 minutes With climate change, unrelenting rains can be challenging for wildlife and plants
Exploring Alaska’s remote, enchanting shores
Reading Time: 10 minutes Joining the few privileged to travel to remote and obscure offshore islands like Baby, Unga, Haystacks, Aghyuk and the Aleutians
Prying into the private lives of birds in love
Reading Time: 4 minutes Wild things don’t actually fall in love, since reproduction is a serious business that involves advertising for the sole purpose of mating
Vernal ponds are at the heart of the forest life cycle
Reading Time: 4 minutes Frogs, toads, salamanders, insects and other invertebrates teem in vernal pools, depending on where you live in the country
California condor back from the brink
Reading Time: 6 minutes Only 22 birds were left in the wild in 1982. They were all captured as part of a breeding program. Now more than 500 live in the wild