Every aquarium owner hopes for one thing. A perfectly clean tank that somehow takes care of itself. It sounds ideal, but ...

A rare Hawaiian tree snail returns to the forest after decades of extinction in the wild, marking a key conservation milestone.

If you’ve ever ordered an abalone dish at a restaurant in the U.S., that pricy sea snail probably came from this farm in Santa Barbara, California. The Cultured Abalone Farm is one of only two red ...

Nature is weird, if you haven't noticed. Waxwing birds get drunk on fermented fruit, there are sharks that lay eggs which look like corkscrews, and Brazil has a tree so huge it looks like a lush, ...

The strikingly spotted slugs often cause panic at first glance among most gardeners: another lettuce eater? myHOMEBOOK explains why leopard slugs are anything but harmful. The post Tigerschnegel: Why ...

The coastline of South Australia has been affected for nearly a year by an unprecedented harmful algal bloom which has led to the deaths of millions of fish and sharks, impacted marine mammals and ...

My friend Trip Lamb’s recent photographs from Africa reinforced for me the value of vicarious ecology, which I define as enjoying someone else’s outdoor experiences. Vicarious ecology offers ways to ...

A shark that lays eggs in the shape of a corkscrew, a bird that gets drunk on fermented fruit, and a park that sinks ...