Earth Day 2017
Happy Earth Day 2017 Are you Marching for Science today ? Wherever you are (London, New York, DC, Berlin) Find a venue, go to the Facebook page, get active locally. (click […]
Category Archives: Natural history
Earth Heroes: Coming Up
Earth Heroes: They’ve traveled from Antarctica to the Amazon, they are activists, scientists, researchers, supremely talented writers and photographers, people who want to make a difference — and they are! […]
Extinction: Great Barrier Reef in Crisis
Extinction is looming in a place many of us may never see – 10,000 miles away, below the ocean surface—Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. It’s one of the world’s great natural […]
Great Backyard Bird Count Feb 17-20
Do you love birds? Love watching them? The Great Backyard Bird Count – now nearly 20 years old– is your chance, February 17-20, to help create the 2017 annual snapshot […]
Bakers Dozen: 13 Books for the Holidays
From serious to serendipitous — 13 books for the holiday season — to give or receive. You’ll find travel, natural history, children’s classics, urban design, the digital world and more. […]
Cuba’s Underwater Splendors
Gardens of the Queen Marine Reserve — Jardines de la reina — Cuba’s 850-square-mile reserve of mangroves and coral reefs — has been called “a liquid time capsule” for the […]
National Park Service: Happy 100th Birthday
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the creation of the National Park Service (NPS) in legislation signed in 1916 by Woodrow Wilson. Happy birthday to the NPS and to our parks! […]
Books Summer ’16: Ten More You’ll Like
Award-winning journalists and experts – Sebastian Junger, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jennifer Ackerman– are among the authors we’ve selected for Ten More Books you’ll like this summer. This selection of 10 looks […]
Biking/Hiking the Iron Curtain Trail: History, Memory, Fun
Get ready for the cycling experience of a lifetime – hikers welcome too – on the 10,400-kilometer-long Iron Curtain Trail (ICT) which stretches through 20 European countries from Norway and […]
Coming: Books of Summer 2016
Our summer book lineup comes in two parts, in June and July – with titles like Tasty, Touch, Gene, Too Much of a Good Thing, Thunder and Lightning, and Architecture’s […]
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