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Kochkor Kaldarbaev still remembers the forest of his childhood. It's dense, with thickets of tall grass and brambles that make walking in a straight line impossible. Trees come in all [...]

From a distance, the massive, colorful portraits by Deniz Sagdig are undeniably striking, but it is the medium and not the work itself that creates a fundamental shift in thought. [...]

At the end of a road deep within Khao Yai National Park in Thailand's Nakhon Nayok province, near a low-slung rangers' cottage, Professor Vijak Chimchome of the Thailand Hornbill Project [...]

On a recent morning in Medirigiriya, Sri Lanka, the streets were filled with the fragrance of curry buns and string hopper noodles as uniformed schoolchildren, commuters on bicycles, and shopkeepers [...]

CANINE HEARTWORM INFECTION RATES are rising across the US at an alarming rate. A panel of veterinary experts recently convened to assess factors behind this trend, offering advice on how [...]

Anaphylaxis is more than just an everyday allergic reaction, and being prepared to recognize and treat these pets in a timely manner is crucial. Anaphylaxis is the systemic, immediate hypersensitivity [...]

Upon admission to the profession of veterinary medicine, we pledge to be stewards of animal welfare and health care resources. (1) Our oath to use 'scientific knowledge and skills for [...]

Palliative care is treating symptoms of a condition rather than treating the underlying disease itself. Palliative care aims to achieve the best quality of life for patients and their families. [...]

Oral surgery in canines and felines necessitates meticulous exploration of the orofacial vasculature, a complex and intricate network where hemorrhage represents a significant intraoperative peril. The success of oral surgery [...]

A HERD OF ELEPHANTS traipses across the acacia-dotted savannah alongside stately giraffes and a dazzle of zebra. A pride of hungry lions closes in on an anxious water buffalo. Hundreds [...]

PICTURE A TALL jamun tree (Java plum, Syzygium cumini) growing in a busy urban neighborhood in an Indian city. It is summer and time for the jamun to bear fruit--a [...]

Old fabrics hold a special charm for Bryony Rose Jennings. She has been collecting them since she was a young girl, picking them up at car-boot sales with her father, [...]

IT'S A SATURDAY afternoon in October, and Abel Orlando Puca is on his way to a monthly community meeting of residents in San Miguel de los Colorados, a hamlet of [...]

SNOW IN EARLY December has become a rare phenomenon in Germany in recent years, but this past winter a sudden snowstorm hit the south of the country hard resulting in [...]

Few clinical presentations evoke the sense of dread in veterinarians the way a dog or cat with tremors can. They're uncommon cases, and the absence of an algorithmic approach to [...]

Every year, Pet Poison Helpline, a 24/7 animal poison control center, compiles a list of toxins from calls received regarding potential animal exposures. The top 10 toxins change from year [...]

Do you feel that placing all your dental eggs into February, National Pet Dental Health Month, leaves the other 11 months of the year jealous? If so, consider embarking on [...]

D I V I N G beneath a white cathedral of ice, I could hear the shrill whistles, honks, and squeaks of harp seals. They could easily have been mistaken [...]

DANGLING ON A ROPE SOME 40 FEET UP, AMID A LABYRINTH of leafy tree limbs, I looked down and questioned my sanity for asking the two men far below to [...]

I FOLLOWED A PATH made soft by years of fallen needles through a hemlock forest. Up ahead a glow looked as if a fire had been struck in a patch [...]

ON A MILD SATURDAY MORNING IN EARLY JUNE, Jamie Tezbir braced herself for a grievous decision. She was making her second trip to the emergency room in a week. Hospital [...]

ON A BRISK MARCH AFTERNOON, Kazuhiko Akiba and a colleague stood in the courtyard of the Chiba Kogaku glass factory in Japan, ready to unveil their latest creation. A forklift [...]

Archaeological evidence suggests that organized glass production began in the Middle East and Mediterranean region over 35 centuries ago as an alternative to ceramics. From the earliest iterations of glass [...]

IN A TALE OF TWO CITIES. Charles Dickens's 1859 novel set during the French Revolution, he wrote: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it [...]

A photographer with a passion for small creatures gets up close with the diminutive and enchanting worlds of insects. IT'S SPRINGTIME in the Balkan Mountains, and in a lush expanse, [...]

ONE WOULD BE HARD-PRESSED to find a better motivator for climate action than the oil refinery in Torrance, California. The sprawling complex of towers and tanks spans 750 acres in [...]

APRIL MONROE SPENT her teenage years in Evansville, an Alaska Native village that sits on the willow-lined banks of the Koyukuk River on the southern flank of the Brooks Range, [...]

LYING BELLY DOWN, her elbows propped on the edge of a cliff, Shirine Bou Raffoul peers through her binoculars, watching a group of men and boys among the pines on [...]

STEPPING GENTLY THROUGH the palatial, jewel-green Kakamega, Kenya's last tropical rainforest, Abraham Shiramba has his ears tuned to distant birdsong. His eyes scan the forest that he knows like a [...]

IT's 5:50 AM AND I'M IN Chaiyaphum province, Thailand, following a single-file column of russet-robed monks as they tread barefoot down the red-dirt road that runs between their monastery and [...]

As she nervously waited for the doctors to begin a cesarean section, she put on a playlist she had made for the occasion. It consisted of songs she found calming [...]

Butterflies stream through the trees in El Rosario, a sanctuary within the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacan, Mexico. Migrating monarchs winter in the same oyamel fir groves that sheltered [...]

Freshwater fanshell mussels rely on darter fish, including the tangerine and Roanoke, for their survival. Mussel larvae attach for weeks to darters, where they absorb vital nutrients to develop. A [...]

THE JAVARI RIVER SPLITS BRAZIL AND PERU as it flows deep into the Amazon forest. The only signs of human life along the waterway are the occasional boat or dock [...]

The Netherlands' Rottumeroog is located in the Waddenzee. a tidal wetland that connects to the North Sea The island is a vital rest stop for hundreds of thousands of migrating [...]

Hajnoczky researches each ecosystem and collects representative items. Arranged here for imaging on her scanner: eelgrass and the empty shells of a snail and a California mussel from a beach [...]

A few months ago, I got a midday text from my son's daycare. He had fallen off a rocking horse and bitten his tongue. It was a pretty run-of-the-mill injury [...]

When being transported to prison, Cinquan 'Umar' Muhammed said, most people try to take their mind off things through chatter. But he's a quiet person, and in the nearly 30 [...]

Nearly three decades ago, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka became Uganda's first national wildlife veterinarian. At the time, hardly any women worked in conservation in the country and no female rangers operated [...]

'I love to see what young people can do before someone old tells them it's impossible.' This pithy quip by David Brower, the legendary environmentalist and founder of Earth Island [...]