Sand Ridge State Forest in Forest City is Illinois’ best-kept natural secret, and frankly, it’s too extraordinary to stay ...

When I think about nature, I’m picturing hillsides and meadows free of straight lines, squares, and cubes. Look at any ...

For Jody MacDonald, finding stillness in the wild starts with getting off the grid. The Toyota 4Runner makes that possible—taking her to the quiet places that restore her.

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

A wetland is a stew of botanical life and can absorb and release heat from the sun. Try taking a whirl through these four ...

Located around 20 miles southeast of Columbia, the park preserves 26,000 acres of swamp, forest, floodlands and waterways, and it offers public trails, fishing, camping and kayaking.

Discover the mysterious world of Myristica swamps through Priya Ranganathan's illustrated guide, The Dark Forest. Email for more info.

Less than an hour outside of New Orleans lies an iconic landscape filled with all the things one may think of when picturing Louisiana: bald cypress trees draped in delicate Spanish moss, alligators ...

In a swampy forest of southeastern Brazil, a “slender” creature perched in a tree. Its “large” reddish-brown eyes scanned the surrounding landscape — but it wasn’t the only one looking ...

“Over the last 60 years, more than 60 per cent of the deciduous swamp forest has been lost in the Minesing Wetlands due to water levels and land use,” said Sarah Campbell, aquatic biologist at NVCA.