This month brings two meteor showers, an eerie orange-tinted full moon, and one of the year’s last chances to glimpse the Milky Way’s luminous core.

In the central Philippines, the Visayan Islands’ tropical beaches are a backdrop for deeply rooted communities who are working to preserve locals’ unique way of life — inviting visitors to share in ...

From moonlit sandbanks to volcanic hiking trails, islands across the Indian Ocean are trading treatment menus for something wilder — and more personal.

Every year billions of birds die from glass window collisions, or from house cat attacks. These incidents can be avoided, and ...

In Africa’s lush highlands, the longest waterway in the world originates from a surprising place. Inside the mission to map the source of the ancient river.

African Parks’ rescue of 2,000 white rhinos was not only impossibly fast but also historic. It encouraged Fearnhead to think bigger—to take what Hume started and combine it with African Parks’ ...

Relentlessly hunted for its scales, the mysterious armored pangolin is vanishing throughout Africa. Now scientists are trying to unlock the secrets that could help save it.

In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous women are opening their communities to visitors and sharing traditions shaped by centuries of ...

In spring 2020, as COVID-19 erupted worldwide, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka feared less for her own health than for the mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, 120 square miles of misty ...

To bring one of the world’s largest vultures back from the brink, Shannon Hoffman is searching cliffs, collecting eggs, and raising chicks by hand.

Demand for slower travel has boosted interest in premium rail trips, with new cabins, trains and routes all over the world.

For decades, scientists have been tinkering with ways to force clouds to make it rain—or snow. One company says it’s approaching a breakthrough.