Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition offers a unique window into life under a microscope. A tardigrade, colloquially known as water bears, move around a volvox algae colony. Tardigrades are water ...

Greenland’s remote eastern fjords are a place of elemental beauty, where glaciers carve through the land, musk oxen roam ancient valleys and human resilience is tested against the raw power of nature.

Dominica fully lives up to its self-appointed nickname as the "Caribbean’s Nature Island." In a region that brims with pristine beaches requiring nothing more but to show up and relax, Dominica ...

Aneth Wright was, until very recently, a data technician for the National Park Service. For more than two decades, Wright worked for the bureau’s inventory and monitoring program — a long-standing ...

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem. Long absent from Argentinian Patagonia due to over-hunting, pumas have returned ...

WASHINGTON — The Princess of Wales has shared a deeply personal and emotional video about healing through nature as she turned 44 on Friday, Jan. 9. Kate, as she is commonly known, released the video, ...

Mongolia’s Bogd Khan Uul was originally protected by an ally of Genghis Khan and is home to Bronze Age petroglyphs, breathtaking views, and ancient human settlements. Nomadic routes have been central ...

A new study overturns previous findings that domestic cats originated thousands of years earlier. An African wildcat (Felis lybica) rests on a rock in Kruger National Park, South Africa. So far, ...

With 800 years of maritime history, this northern town is going all in on its seafaring past in 2026 with revamped museums, docks, and preserved ships. See why its laid-back charm is so hard to resist ...

A woman hiking near Rocky Mountain National Park was killed by a mountain lion on New Year’s Day, according to an autopsy released Jan. 5. The hiker, identified as Kristen Marie Kovatch of Fort ...

The killer whales ripped the liver out of a shark and passed it around—only the second time orcas have been seen engaging in this behavior. Killer Whales off the coast of Baja California Sur in the ...

Two major roads and five of the most popular trails in Redwood National and State Parks remain closed or partially closed after an atmospheric river slammed Northern California last week, according to ...