When Turkeys Attack

Why are wild turkeys chasing down mail carriers and bicyclists?

Matthew L. Miller

Review: What Fishing Books Can Be

Four fresh looks at fish and fishing for the angler-conservationist.

Matthew L. Miller

Bird Country: Saving the Riverina’s Last Wild Wetlands

In a dry corner of southeast Australia, life-giving wetlands sustain a huge array of birds—and a 50,000-year old culture.

Justine E. Hausheer

How the House Finch Conquered Your Feeder…and a Continent

The dramatic spread of the non-native bird we love, the house finch.

Matthew L. Miller

Remote Sensing Data Advances Soil Health Science

How can farmers adapt to increasing extreme weather events? Satellite technology may help find answers to that age-old question.

Shamitha Keerthi

The Carp Show: An Inside Look at the Jumping Fish Invasion

Your guide to one of the most notorious fish invasions.

Matthew L. Miller

Fear the Squirrel: How Wildlife Causes Major Power Outages

Squirrels may pose a bigger threat to the power grid than cyber-attack.

Edward Ricciuti

Halloween Stories of Spooky Species & Weird Science

Nature is full of spooky species, weird science, and sometimes disturbing natural phenomena.

The Editors

50 Fish, 50 States: Small Stream Wonders

An easy-to-overlook New York stream yields a strange and ferocious fish.

Matthew L. Miller

Horrifying True Stories of Insect Zombies

For insects, Zombieland is a very real and very horrifying fate.

Matthew L. Miller

A Field Guide to Commonly Misidentified Snakes

Snake expert and biologist David Steen helps you determine what that snake is. Spoiler: It’s not always a copperhead or cottonmouth.

David A. Steen

Recovery: The Seal and Shark Invasion

Gray seals and great white sharks are rebounding in the Northeast U.S., but not everyone’s happy.

Ted Williams