Richard Hammond’s £1.99m Welsh mansion dream hits an unexpected hurdle after eight protected bat species are discovered. (Photo: Getty Images/Savills) Former Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has rep...
Upper Mississippi riverRepresentative image from Canva For generations, the Hoesly family farmed rich bottomland along the Wisconsin and Kickapoo rivers in southwest Wisconsin, growing corn and soybea...
For decades, the grasslands outside Ramona, California, looked much as they had for generations: open country, seasonal pools and wide stretches of native vegetation broken by grazing land. As reporte...
Zion National Park (Representative image) Visitors who approach Zion National Park from the east are greeted by a winding, scenic drive that feels worlds away from the crowded gateway towns surroundin...
The need for such work is growing as development, roads, invasive species, pollution and climate change alter Virginia’s landscapes. On a humid summer morning in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, the work...
An elevated, high-definition view of the newly protected landscape surrounding the Mimbres River in southwestern New Mexico. Conservationists and state officials in New Mexico have completed a deal to...
In 1999, Al and Diane Johnson thought they had finally found the place where they could build a home and settle down. They had bought 828 acres on Texas’ Lamar Peninsula, a broad stretch of marsh, gra...
Söderåsen national park (Image Credit: Canva) Much of Sweden’s Söderåsen plateau was once far more open than the dense woodland visitors see today. A 2025 study published in The Holocene found that th...
Connecticut’s Outer Island (Image Credit: outerisland.org) In 1964, Elizabeth Hird and her husband, Basil Rauch, purchased Outer Island as a summer retreat in Connecticut’s Thimble Islands...
Shell Rock River Watershed District (Image Credit: www.shellrock.org) In 2020, Minnesota approved $1.918 million for the Shell Rock River Watershed Habitat Restoration Program – Phase IX. Accord...