NATURE host Chris Morgan joins scientist Caroline Schuppli way up in the canopy to take a look at neesia fruit, a staple of the orangutan diet. The interactive map below shows other locations that Chris has visited. ...

Greetings from Port Lockroy, the "Penguin Post Office."

Rarely does one work in a place where it is impossible to have a bad day, but here on a small islet in Antarctica, I have just that scenario. Whilst here with ...

My Cessna plane lands on a small strip in Puerto Jimenez, the largest town on the southern tip of the Osa Peninsula. As I step onto the hot tarmac I am welcomed by the moist kiss of tropical air. I spend the first days ...

Chicks are hatching everywhere and our first one, Pioneer, has been stepping out of his nest almost daily. Ships and sailing yachts are coming in and out of the bay… and it’s almost the middle of January! Where does ...

A great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) was spotted doing the breast stroke in Lake Michigan earlier this week. According to WGN6 in Chicago: [Photographer and birder] Steve Spitzer was at Loyola Park Beach in Chicago’s ...

As the NATURE episode Invasion of the Killer Whales showed, climate change is beginning to have an impact on animals that live in the Arctic, one of the coldest regions on earth. Seasonal ice sheets, the main hunting ...

If you are a regular visitor to the NATURE website, you might have noticed more than a few changes around here. We’ve redesigned and reorganized the website from the ground up, with new features to help you find ...

The New York Times RETROREPORT, a video series that “looks back at the major stories that shaped the world”, recently covered colony collapse disorder (CCD)–a mysterious epidemic that appeared in 2006 ...