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This week, the New York Times travel section started a series on sustainable traveling. The inaugural column, headlined "Can Darwin's Lab Survive Success," is probably the quintessential case for illustrating the pros and cons of eco-tourism. A ...

This article is part of a continuing feature on sustainable travel, where we'll be discussing endangered destinations as well as those reconstructed and beyond hope. Today's focus: The Galapagos Islands. These small, diverse islands have ...

This news kind of struck me from out of the blue. Having lived in Seattle for many years, I will tell you that the Orca or killer whale is a legendary figure. Pods of whales still ply the bay and sea kayakers make special pilgrimages up to ...

Today's POTD is of an animal that seems to come out of some science fiction book. The sea horse here was taken by Roberto Sozzani and shows a new species of Pygmy Seahorse. ...

When it comes to viewing wildlife in the U.S., most people naturally gravitate to the western part of the country, where you'll find a wide variety of species in abundance. Places like Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and of course Alaska, have great ...

Rachel Atkinson hops like a Darwin finch from one volcanic outcropping to the next, then plunges into ankle-deep mud. Squishing as she walks, the botanist with the Charles Darwin Research Station homes in on the ailing invaders: blackberry, passion ...

A team of explorers from the U.S. and Britain, along with locals from Papua New Guinea, recently descended into the volcanic crater of Mount Bosavi, where they discovered a "lost world" with a host of new species that have been evolving in isolation ...

National Geographic News is reporting that the U.S. Department of the Interior has designated Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds a national natural landmark.  The fossil beds, located near the town of Neligh, contain hundreds of fossils, including ...

With so many species endangered and dying off due to man's encroachment on their natural habitat, it was with much happiness that I ran across a story on MSN about an expedition to a remote corner of Indonesia awash with rare and ...

I wanted to follow up on my post about the furry "Salma Hayek" lobster with an article I discovered over at Outside Magazine. The lobster discovery and the naming of the new animal raises some interesting questions about how species get ...

Safaris in Kenya are being impacted by a three year drought that has dessicated the landscape and killed many animals. In Samburu National Reserve, elephants are dying for lack of food and other species such a zebra and crocodiles are also suffering. ...

Today's traveler is consuming destinations at a harrowing rate. Remember when Prague was in? We're so past that now. Anybody and their mother can get into Russia -- and Cuba is just over the horizon. People are even organizing tours to Rwanda. Yes, ...

A man was arrested at the airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil after 200 canaries were found in his suitcase. The smuggler is a resident of Brazil and had just gotten off a flight from Peru. Over 60 of the birds were dead. The others are being returned to ...

One of the real successes in ecotourism over the past decade or so has been the use of tourist dollars to aid in wildlife conservation. Many countries have discovered that travelers are willing to pay a good deal of money for the opportunity to ...

Hey ho, what do you know, diving fans. Just when you thought every species of shark was already known to man (OK, maybe you didn't think this, but sometimes it seems like we've already discovered everything) scientists have found a new shark species ...