wildlife

From turtles to cougars, the answer to the roadkill epidemic might require more infrastructure, not less.

Why do we see seagulls at fast food restaurants? Shouldn’t they be at sea?

Consider the woodchuck, aka groundhog, aka whistlepig, and all the reasons to celebrate them for more than just one day a year

The ocean is a place of queer possibility in Sabrina Imbler's new book, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures.

What’s a homeowner to do about raccoons and squirrels?

"The question is: What is a wolf? And that is not as simple as it sounds," said Daniel Rosenblatt, New York Department of Environmental Conservation wildlife biologist.

Fish and Game says monitoring “maternity colonies” can give biologists a better sense of how the bat population is doing year to year. Many roost in attics, barns or church steeples.

Author Mary Roach is no stranger to squirmy subjects. By comparison, her latest book sounds almost cute: It’s called Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law.

In 1968, ecologist and biologist Garrett Hardin published “The Tragedy of the Commons,” and to this day the idea has currency in environmental and…

Every other Friday on Morning Edition NHPR’s Sam Evans-Brown tracks down answers to questions about the environment and outdoors for our listeners in a…