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Two Bison Attacks, One Harrowing Date
Kyler Bourgeous grew up just a few minutes from the entrance of Antelope Island, Utah, a 42-square-mile state park in the Great Salt Lake. Over the years, the now 30-year-old college student has biked...
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A New Documentary Explores One Man's Whale Obsession
“OK, we’re going to put the sperm whale in the refrigerator, because we’re not working on it just yet,” said Joy Reidenberg, a professor at the Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology at New...
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How Many Dead Animals Is 1 Billion Dead Animals?
A scientist from the University of Sydney estimates that Australia’s ongoing bush fire disaster has already killed at least one billion animals in Victoria and New South Wales (not including bats,...
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Travel Is Worth the Carbon Footprint
Our little rubber Zodiac boat wove around icebergs eight stories high and entered a fjord flanked by high mountain basins. Jagged peaks called nunataks rose 5,000 feet into the Arctic clouds, forming a...
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'When Lambs Become Lions' Explores a Violent Trade
What does desperation do to people? That’s the question at the heart of When Lambs Become Lions, a documentary set in Kenya amid a crackdown on poaching. The effort reached a dramatic apex in 2016,...
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The Bizarre Bank Robbery That Shook an Arctic Town
Maksim Popov needed a gun. It was late fall 2018, and the single, unemployed 29-year-old was descending into darkness. He was living in Volgograd, the large industrial city in southwestern Russia...
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The 25 Best Accessible Trails in America
There’s stiff competition to get onto any “best of” trail list in the United States. But with sweeping views of towering rock features, ruins of historic railroad towns, and some of the biggest trees...
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Craving Warmth? Book a Flight to These Hot Spots.
Surf Uncrowded Breaks On Costa Rica’s Caribbean Side Previous Next A break near Manzanillo, south of Puerto Viejo (Ryan Krueger/Tandem) Cahuita National Park (David Yawalkar/Eyeem) Hotel Aguas Claras...
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A Long-Shot Bid to Save the Monarch Butterfly
Conservationists hoping to protect a threatened wild species tend to take a standard set of actions. These can involve political campaigns, lawsuits, and media outreach. But sometimes it’s the...
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Why the Death of Mountain Lion P-56 Matters
On Monday, the National Park Service announced a significant loss to a small group of mountain lions in California’s Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. P-56, an adult male cat, was killed...
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Inside the Fight to Save Florida's Panthers
Florida’s humans often make spectacular and attention-grabbing headlines, but the state’s official animal, the panther, has the exact opposite disposition. These large felines are quiet, they never...
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What AI Hears in the Rainforest
Topher White founded the nonprofit Rainforest Connection with the intent of creating a low-cost monitor that could help remote communities in their efforts to halt illegal logging, which is an enormous...
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When 18 Tigers Were Let Loose in Zanesville, Ohio
There are more tigers in captivity in the United States right now than all of the wild tigers in the world combined. This is due to loopholes in the laws governing big-cat ownership—and it’s a...
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An Unsettling Crime at the Top of the World
In the isolated Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, some 800 miles from the North Pole, the tiny town of Longyearben is the kind of place where people go to start their lives over. With brightly colored...
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A Tourism Lull May Be Good for Animals—but Not for Long
Stanza Mbanga Molaodi had big plans this spring. On May 17, the owner of African Bush Lovers Safaris in Botswana was due to accompany six Italian clients into Chobe National Park, home to a third of...
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'Tiger King' Is a Wild Ride. And Largely Misleading.
Five minutes into the first episode of Netflix’s viral documentary series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness, its codirector, Eric Goode, encounters a newly purchased snow leopard in the back of a...
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Chased by a Jaguar in the Heart of the Amazon
The longer we’re stuck at home, sheltering in place, the greater our hunger for tales of far-flung journeys. For this week’s episode, we’re offering one of our favorite adventure stories from our...
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Saving the Last Great Super Tuskers
Super tuskers are a highly poached population of elephants that are known to have ivory tusks that drop to the ground. Tsavo Trust, from filmmaker Goh Iromoto, looks at how the film’s namesake...
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The 67-Year-Old Still Fighting for Wild Places
Dennis Sizemore is limping, shuffling his swollen left ankle through the dusty streets of Maun, Botswana, the gateway city to the wildlife-rich Okavango Delta. Over his long conservation career, it’s...
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The Misunderstood Python Hunters Saving the Everglades
Night had fallen over the Everglades, but Donna Kalil kept driving. She leaned out the window of her Ford Expedition as it followed the rutted levee road and peered across the saw grass as far as the...
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