Nature

Enjoy this Lego hobbyist's model train's journey through a forest, with the soothing sounds of birds singing.

The decision will trigger another court battle over whether he has the power as president to essentially erase a national monument.

Duisburg Public Services brought their tap water to Evian-les-Bains to prove a point.

As you read this, the third named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, which officially started on June 1, is churning its way across southern Mexico. In 2019, the third named storm of the season arrived on August 20.

Pecos Hank explains the science of red sprites and how he captured rare atmospheric optical phenomenon out over the horizon.

Oil tanker Willowy was on its course to its next destination on May 31 when senior officers aboard it were called to the bridge as it turns out, their ship, along with four other vessels in the vicinity, had all started to sail in circles and were about to converge.

How a bounty of digital evidence led to the downfall of one of the nation's deadliest poaching crews.

The landslide was more than 2,000 feet wide and 500 feet high.

A patient man wearing a hummingbird feeding helmet was soon swarmed.

New evidence suggests that a mass extinction on the planet is picking up speed, with hundreds of species, if not more, at risk of becoming extinct.

Why is it so weak in the South Atlantic and should we be worried?

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, three Chinese teams reached the top of the world.

A snow-covered vault in Antarctica could help preserve chunks of disappearing glaciers.

Christian Cooper is already back birding at Central Park. "I'm not excusing the racism," he said. "But I don't know if her life needed to be torn apart."

What would it mean to abandon Earth wholesale? The proposition to throw one's hands up and forfeit our planet is a seductive one — things are looking pretty irredeemably grim.

Deep in the Andean rainforest, the bark from an endangered tree once cured malaria and powered the British Empire. Now, its derivatives are at the center of a worldwide debate.

Glaciologists dream of a cold-storage vault in Antarctica to preserve key samples of the paleoclimate.

Of all the many tangible climate change impacts, none may be bigger than coastal erosion and permafrost slump.

A group of eight researchers from China just summited the mountain with the sole mission of getting the most accurate measurement to date of the world's tallest peak

Out in Wisconsin, here's GoPro footage from a tree trimming that involves a helicopter and chainsaw.

Overcrowding is seriously jeopardizing the future of America's beloved national parks.

Rising seas are claiming land, changing lives and transforming our relationship with nature.

How Spectacle Island was transformed from landfill to lush.

Spoilers: it's hard to be an impala in the wild.

We will soon enter the most dangerous time of year for natural disasters. But the pandemic has turned disaster planning on its head.

There are important decisions to make before and after your recyclables leave your hands.

The Quanta Resources Superfund Site is one of 1,335 contaminated sites across America that the EPA deems most in need of cleanup. If Superfund status is any indicator, New Jersey has the dirtiest dirt in the country.

A perennially lost island caught up in a land dispute in the Mediterranean Sea keeps reappearing every couple of years.

Waters are warming faster than the global average.

On Monday, locust swarms entered residential areas and other parts of Jaipur, a city in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.

Not only are planted trees not the carbon sinks you want, but tree planting frequently ends up doing more harm than good.

The big and noisy insects have started to emerge and are looking to mate in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina.

Researchers found that when deprived of pollen, bumblebees will nibble on the leaves of flowerless plants. The damage done seems to fool the plant into flowering, sometimes up to 30 days earlier than normal.

As humans remain stuck inside or socially distanced, trillions of buzzing cicadas will burst out of the ground across the US between now and summer 2021. It's already starting.

The first water measurements here were taken in 1903. Long-term monitoring since then tells the tale of an abrupt ecosystem shift.

A lake on the outskirts of Portland, Maine, became a highly unusually scene last summer when a kayaker happened upon a dead bald eagle floating face down, pierced through the heart.

The way we buy food is going to look pretty different for awhile.

Wixom Lake, a reservoir of the Edenville Dam in Michigan was entirely drained this Tuesday.

The Barnacles Cafe & Dolphin Feeding at Tin Can Bay, Queensland says pods of dolphins have been leaving behind random "gifts" of flotsam and jetsam to the shore as visitors have stayed home.

A pilot captured footage of the breaching of the Edenville Dam, sending a deluge surging towards towns in mid-Michigan.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency Tuesday night for Midland County after both the Edenville and Sanford dams breached and urged immediate evacuations.

"While kayak fishing offshore, I hooked up on the elusive South Florida blackfin tuna, which took me on a wild ride. I was quickly joined by the not-so-elusive South Florida sharks which battled me for my catch."

Archivists at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia released a 21-second clip of the last known moving footage of a thylacine. The footage, shot in 1935, captures the last known captive thylacine before the species went extinct.

When photographer Eric Guth drops into Godzilla Cave, he slips into a world of ice built by fire.

Car traffic took a big dip beginning in late March, and headlines celebrated clean air around the U.S. But an NPR analysis of EPA data tells a more troubling story.

A useful audio guide to recognizing the sound of birds commonly found in your neighborhood.

A lizard that both lays eggs and gives birth to live young is helping scientists understand how and why these forms of reproduction evolved.

"We've had torrential rains in northern Illinois. I suppose the the storm drains leading to the sewers under this lot were submerged, and the air had trouble escaping the normal way as it filled with water, so it just blew a hole in the pavement."

In Hawaii, a unique historical site sheds light on a story of prejudice, resilience — and aloha.

The playful aquatic creatures enjoy bouncing rocks and pebbles around. Is it just for fun, or are they driven by deeper instincts?

Brandon Gross goes on a very cramped subterranean escapade.

A raccoon performs a funny bout of gymnastics while trying to break into a man's bird feeder.

A retreating glacier is increasing the risk of a catastrophic landslide and tsunami within a few decades, researchers say.

New research shows these ferocious insects don't just hunt like robots.

Pythons are devouring native animal life in the unique ecosystem of South Florida. To help solve the problem, Florida Fish and Wildlife officials have turned to amateur and professional hunters to round up the reptiles in a wild competition called the Python Bowl.

At a "wet bulb" temperature of 35 degrees Celsius, a human can't survive for more than six hours, even in shade and with water. We're starting to see those conditions more and more frequently.

"We were just out fishing for blue crab in Pecan Island, LA and this huge bobcat came out across the weir. I grabbed my phone thinking he was about to get wet, but he surprised us all."

Researchers have discovered that the ocean is burping tiny plastic particles, which then blow onto land — and potentially into your lungs.

Ants discover a slice of kiwi and have the time of their lives.

Sloth bears feed on ants and termites, but often attack people when startled. As human populations in India grow, violent conflict is rising.