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Environment

Roaches Taste Like Blue Cheese, and Other Bugsgiving Revelations

This Thanksgiving, why not feast on insects?

November 20, 2018

Found: Teeth From a Medieval Sea Monster/Delicacy

Fancy a lamprey pie?

November 01, 2018

Bury Me in an Artificial Reef

One Florida-based company offers a second life at sea by adding cremains to something called a reef ball.

October 29, 2018

Sluice

This striking steel sculpture transforms environmental data into art.

Capemarsh

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Mule Deer Are Eating Away at the Most Massive Living Thing in the World

A special aspen grove needs the chance to regenerate.

October 18, 2018

This Award-Winning Australian Land Art Is Designed to Power 900 Homes

But will it ever be built?

October 12, 2018

endangered animals

Why North America’s Gangliest Bird Is Hitching a Ride With the Coast Guard

Whooping cranes are on the move, because of budget cuts.

October 09, 2018

How a Hurricane Prompted Guatemala to Prioritize Land Preservation

Hurricane Stan hit 13 years ago today.

October 03, 2018

Brooks, Kentucky

Valley of the Drums

This calm grassy field was once a Superfund site full of thousands of nasty chemicals.

Joseph Kerski

Added by Joseph Kerski

Climate Change Is Coming for America's National Parks

Goodbye, glaciers.

September 25, 2018

The Donkey Refuge Where Burros Become Coyote-Kicking Livestock Guardians

With the right training, feral donkeys go from zero to hero.

September 25, 2018

Striking Satellite Images of Cities on the Brink

A fresh perspective on the fragility and resilience of our world.

September 24, 2018

Charles Kellogg Sang Like a Bird and Drove a Giant Tree

The vaudeville entertainer turned a California redwood into a mobile "Travel Log."

September 06, 2018

All Aboard the World's First Floating Dairy Farm

More sustainable food production may call for plopping cows on the water.

August 22, 2018

Found: The Last Traces of Unspoiled Ocean

They're few and far between.

Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France

Zone Rouge

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Fairplay, Colorado

Rocky Mountain Land Library

This 19th-century ranch is being transformed into a residential library with thousands of books about the natural world.

Added by wroena

In Search of Rare Birds and Glory in Colombia

How an international birdwatching competition draws attention to the country's at-risk natural bounty.