wildlife

Guys, I’m just trying to hibernate over here. – Photo credit: Jason Cohn / Reuters

Culture

There’s a surprisingly spicy reason for ‘Groundhog Day.’ And yes, it’s all about sex.

Stam Zervanos

1/30/2026
The moment you look away from those adorable eyes, these mischievous creatures will sneak out of your lab. – Photo credit: Joshua J. Cotten/Unsplash, CC BY-SA

Animals, Science

Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks – studying their clever brains can clarify human intelligence, too

Kelly Lambert

1/16/2026
A raccoon in Virginia went on a liquor-store rampage. – Photo credit: Canva, webandi from pixabay (left, cropped) / Syda Productions (right, cropped)

Animals

Animal control helps ‘drunk’ raccoon that rampaged through liquor store and passed out in bathroom

Ryan Reed

12/5/2025
President Donald J. Trump and photo of a forest. – Photo credit: Portrait from the Library of Congress by Daniel Torok, Image via Canva – Photo by PavelS

Environment

Public united and adamantly opposes Trump’s plan to roll back the Roadless Rule

Mark Wales

9/26/2025
Robot ponders and river flows through a forrest. – Photo credit: Image via Canva – Photos by PhonlamaiPhoto’s Images and PharmShot

Environment

These 4 high-tech inventions are giving Mother Nature a fighting chance at a brighter future

Mark Wales

7/16/2025
Wild beavers have been released for the first time in a Dorset nature reserve, over 400 years after the semi-aquatic creatures went extinct in England. – Photo credit: Photo by Francesco Ungaro on Unsplash

Environment

Over 400 years after going extinct in England, wild beavers released in nature reserve

Ryan Reed

3/8/2025
Susan Baur of Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage – Photo credit: AARP Video

Culture

85-year-old woman forms kickass squad “Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage” to clean up Cape Cod ponds

Cecily Knobler

3/5/2025
Legacy

‘The most anti-wildlife president in history’ guts species protection in his lame duck period

Brett Wilkins

12/16/2020
Legacy

The areas around Fukushima are still contaminated, but wildlife is somehow thriving

Heidi Lux

1/9/2020
Legacy

If you think all hope is lost for wildlife, you’re wrong

Forrest Galante

10/22/2019

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