Nature

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Encounter with a Humboldt

This summer, news reports rang with concern that the mighty Humboldt squid was expanding its home turf off the coast of California

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Smithsonian Says No to "Lucy"

A gypsy moth larva crawls along a leaf.

Unwelcome Guests

A new strategy to curb the spread of gypsy moths

35 Who Made a Difference: Andy Goldsworthy

Using nature as his canvas, the artist creates works of transcendent beauty

Adirondacks

Adirondacks Style

At six million acres, New York's funky wilderness preserve, one of America's largest refuges, is also one of the most alluring. An aficionado explains why

The Hatiguanico River, largely untouched by industry or farming, flows through the Zapata Swamp. Tarpon is the catch of the day.

The Nature of Cuba

Tiny frogs. Vast swamps. Pristine rivers. Whether by design or default, the island boasts the Caribbean's best-kept wildlands. But for how long?

This image shows an about 1.6 inch (4 cm) large male Yellow-winged Darter (Sympetrum flaveolum) from the side

Dragonfly Dramas

Desert Whitetails and Flame Skimmers cavort in the sinkholes of New Mexico's Bitter Lake Refuge

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Close Encounters With the Old Sow

Local expert Robert Godfrey relates true life-and-death stories of people sucked into the Old Sow whirlpool

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Hunting Slime Molds

They're not animals and they're not plants, and biologists want to know a lot more about them.

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High & Dry

On the loose in the punishing terrain of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

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Training to Slay the Dragon

Tucson recruits learn there's a lot more to fighting fire than just "putting the wet stuff on the red stuff"

Rafinesque Constantine Samuel 1783-1840

An "Odd Fish" Who Swam Against the Tide

The pioneering naturalist Constantine Rafinesque did just about everything, and he always did it his way

Aldo Leopold (left) and Olaus Muire sitting together outdoors, annual meeting of The Wilderness Society Council, Old Rag, Virginia, 1946

Aldo Leopold: A Sage for All Seasons

Aldo Leopold articulated a new way to look at the land and its creatures

Jas de Bouffan, 1876

Cézanne's Endless Quest to Parallel Nature's Harmony

After all the analysis of his apples, his bathers, that mountain, his paintings still electrify at a major show in Philadelphia

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Alaska's Arctic Refuge: on the Minds of Many

There are other glorious wilderness areas in America but none quite as magnificent, as controversial or as far north as this one

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Shhhh...Those 'Peculiar People' Are Listening

They're out there in there boondocks, doing their best to record the pure sounds of nature while there are still some quiet places left

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