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 ...

Gum makers have claimed, for decades, chewing is good for your mental health. They’re kind of on to something. Humans have chewed on gum for millennia. Scientists are still trying to figure out why.

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 ...

An injured butterfly can now fly after a wing transplant from a dead insect. The monarch butterfly was brought to Sweetbriar Nature Center in Long Island, New York, with its wing bent and torn, unable ...

Climate change is speeding the spread of global pathogens. Can an early-warning system for animal viruses help stop pandemics before they start? During an expedition to the Southern Ocean, microbial ...

While I suspect the majority of people here in Texas have seen a monarch butterfly, most probably don’t know that they make one of the most amazing migrations on the planet. Monarchs, known for their ...

Selecting the best travel images from a year’s worth of fantastic photography is quite a challenge when the photographers have travelled to all corners of the world to document features for National ...

With a growing number of tour operators and cruise lines offering intrepid family voyages, expedition cruising is no longer just for grown-ups. From following in the footsteps of Charles Darwin in the ...

If you are wondering what these three things have in common, life has brought a special story full-circle at the 2025 NFR. "The butterfly effect is the idea that small, seemingly trivial events may ...

A study of marine parks spanning Mexico to Ecuador found key differences that allow ecosystems to flourish. Seen from above the ocean surface, the tiny island of Roca Partida in Mexico's Revillagigedo ...

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