The nation of the Philippines is made of nearly 8,000 islands in the western Pacific. Mindoro Island is the seventh largest, and one of the more populated, but it’s also the only home of a critically ...

Since Meru was only a week old, she’s loved rolling around in mud — and that certainly hasn’t changed as she has now started to explore the “big kid wallow” as the keepers call it. (Zoo staff recently ...

An early morning hike found me two-thirds of the way up a timbered mountain. It was still dark, and I couldn't make my final approach until the air warmed and thermals began flowing uphill. Finally, ...