A federal court has rejected the Trump administration’s plan to to drill for oil in polar bear habitat in the Arctic Ocean

The Great Lakes are turning into giant “dead zones” like the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic. If we don’t change the way we grow food, we will destroy 1/5 of the world’s fresh surface water and all the fish in it. 

Muskoxen have outlived wooly mammoths and sabertooth tigers. Efforts to repopulate the Arctic bring hope the prehistoric beasts can survive our latest warm spell.

Mom and baby muskox at Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in 2012. CREDIT: Doug Lindstrand

What some astronomers believe to be “the Star of Bethlehem” will shine brightest on the darkest day (Dec. 21) of one of our darkest years.

If you’re having a bad day, remember there’s a man named “Bichelangelo” that makes masterpieces with his bike

Painted acorns make the perfect DIY Christmas ornaments or stocking stuffers

See the unseen Wild West on a “glass train” ride!

Sperm whales organize themselves into strange vertical patterns at bedtime, appearing to sleep “standing up”

Stephane Granzotto: National Geographic

Colorado voters approve historic ballot initiative to reintroduce gray wolves to the Rocky mountains, where they’ve been extinct for nearly a century

Humans are blind to ultraviolet light, but bugs can see it, and boy are they lucky! Ultraviolet florescence photography gives us a hint of how flowers look to pollinators.

Credit: Craig Burrows