The author and his neighbors in Point Lay Alaska had several close encounters with polar bears in the mid-90s.

Grasslands are vast, open landscapes where grasses, sedges, and wildflowers dominate the terrain rather than trees. They ...

In a warming Arctic, noise from growing shipping traffic is interfering with the ability of narwhals to hunt and communicate.

The people you'll read about here are, as the Irish or the Scots would put it, eejits. To paraphrase Kirk Lazarus from Tropic Thunder, morons. Imbeciles. The dumbest folks that ever lived. Well, maybe ...

Scientists have captured a rare view of one of the ocean's least understood whales—without ever seeing it. By listening to ...

The gray ghost hovered momentarily over my car’s windshield, its head dark and the undersides light. The wind was strong and ...

Hidden in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula lies a natural masterpiece that belongs on the front of every Great Lakes travel ...