Charming though they are, are honey bees actually bad?

Our lovely cat died this morning. Was playing with the dog, then suddenly yowling in pain. He'd "thrown a blood clot."

A New Yorker story recalls memories of muskox field work in Alaska

A small voice said “the clock fell.” "Monkey did it."

I’ve just finished reading The Line Becomes a River: dispatches from the border, by Francisco Cantu. It brings to my mind a short piece I wrote a few years ago,...

Recollections of a long ago camping trip that passed through a working whaling station.

It's time for a paradigm shift in gardening, towards using native plants that support the ecosystems around us.

A California trip yielded a fascinating and unusual landscape and fascinating and unusual stories.

A fascinating article, Second Nature by Dorothy Wickenden in The New Yorker, triggers a cascade of thinking about practical conservation wherever we live

A realtor suggests lawn, missing the point entirely. Even after being told.

Absolutely riveting, The Premonition is the story about people trying to prevent needless deaths from a pandemic they saw coming.

Stories about landing dangerous mako sharks bring to mind Alaska stories about the dangers of fishing for halibut

They can thatch my lawn and mow it and trim it. Why would I say "No, thanks”?

We'd see it briefly, then it would disappear for days. What was it? This unusual animal kept us guessing for weeks.

Under duress, finally reading Walden

Conservation is democracy extended to the natural world

A softball question reveals a profound difference in who these two politicians think they are serving

Thousands of monarch butterflies gather on a maple tree overnight