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A snowy owl in an urban environment
animals

Why Are There Snowy Owls at Logan Airport?

This Boston airport is a surprisingly ideal home for these majestic Arctic creatures.
The Podcast Team October 8, 2025
As eulachon arrive in British Columbia’s Nass River, hundreds of hungry birds follow. The spawning fish also attract other predators, such as sea lions and seals.
rivers

Where the Savior Fish Still Swims

In an era of collapse, a fabled fish keeps coming back to the Nisg̱a’a nation.
Shanna Baker March 10, 2025
A mother manatee and her baby swim through the water in Crystal River, Florida, where manatees can be found year-round.
science

Florida’s Manatees Are Relative Newcomers, According to Historical Research

These beloved sea cows were barely recorded in the area before the seas warmed in the late 1700s. Now their habitats are at risk.
Richard Luscombe January 6, 2025
Topi
List

6 Places to See Amazing Animal Migrations This Fall

Monarchs and antelopes are on the move—here's where you can get a good view!
Roxanne Hoorn September 20, 2024
Pitlochry, Scotland

Pitlochry Fish Ladder

An exceptional engineering feat that facilitates the migration of salmon upstream during their breeding season.
nature

Podcast: Floating Along with Florida's Gentle Giants

Meet Florida’s unofficial mascot: the manatee.
Who were the first humans to befriend kitty cats?
maps

Were Egyptians Really the First to Domesticate Cats? Try Cave Men

A map shows the spread of felines by Egyptians, Romans, Vikings—and prehistoric ancestors.
Frank Jacobs May 24, 2024
A map shows the first direct evidence of adult European eels migrating to their breeding place in the Sargasso Sea.
animals

All Eels in America and Europe Come From the Bermuda Triangle

But no one's ever seen them there.
Frank Jacobs May 10, 2024
In 100 years, the colors on this map might swap.
globes

The Most Dangerously Populated Latitudes in the World

Impending threats may reverse everything.
Frank Jacobs May 3, 2024
Valley Falls, Oregon

Lake Abert

Oregon's only closed-basin hypersaline lake, an important stopover for migrating waterfowl, is in danger of drying up completely.
Tangier, Morocco

Leila Alaoui Mural

Local authorities nearly destroyed this mural before a viral video rallied international support to save it.
Researchers in an inflatable boat prepare to tag a bull shark they have flipped on its back, inducing tonic immobility. Science cannot yet explain why many species seem to go into a trance in this position.
science

To Track Bull Sharks, First Hit Their Snooze Button

For these researchers in Southern Africa, tagging the apex predators starts with putting them in trancelike tonic immobility.
Ryan Truscott September 20, 2023
The common rudd is a freshwater fish that can often be spotted waiting on the Fish Doorbell's video live stream.
canals

Ring the ‘Fish Doorbell’ To Help Fish Migrate in the Netherlands

Utrecht’s Fish Doorbell has helped thousands of fish swim upstream to reproduce.
Jennifer Byrne June 8, 2023
On the nesting colony platform, a common tern watches over its chicks beside tufts of artificial grass that mimic the birds' traditional nesting habitat.
science

Maryland's Rare Seabirds Get a Life Raft and Babysitters

Scientists don bike helmets and dodge bird poop to care for a colony of endangered common terns.
Ashley Stimpson June 6, 2023
A Steller’s sea eagle near Sapporo, Japan.
science

What a Roving Steller's Sea Eagle May Tell Us About Ourselves

Thousands of miles from its native range, the raptor illustrates how attitudes toward nature vary.
Adriana Craciun May 22, 2023
Every year in the remote reaches of northeastern Georgia, shepherds drive hundreds of sheep along a dangerous mountain trail to seasonal pastures. In May and June, shepherds make the trek up to pristine summer pastures high in the Caucasus Mountains. Then, in September and October, they drive the sheep back down to the valleys below.
art

The Stark Beauty of Tushetian Shepherds’ Journey Across Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains

These stunning photographs reveal the determination and resilience of a centuries-old way of life.
Sarah Durn March 2, 2023
Nicknamed Nalangu, this leopard had just finished feeding her cub when she took a moment to stretch at the bottom of a river bed. Leopards can prove especially challenging to photograph because they're mostly active at night.
nature

Kenya’s Maasai Mara Wildlife Reserve Is a Photographer’s Playground

At least while the lions behave.
Sarah Durn February 6, 2023
Families were raised and communities created in the migrant camps of Yakima Valley, Washington.
culture

How Photos Tell the Story of a Migrant Farm Community to a New Generation

“I see the collection as a tool for uncovering what is already there."
Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing December 8, 2022