Volcanologist Richard Fiske loves fieldwork most of all--when he's on the job, the Earth moves
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Thanks to 300 volunteers, steelhead are back again, despite highways, offices and a campus
As recently as 200 years ago, dunes and sheet sand were active throughout the Great Plains. A serious drought could bring them back
For archaeologists, the proof is in the pudding or rather, in the agave, cactus and other goodies
It's colorless, odorless and gets no respect, but it's vital to the cycle of life and we may be using too much
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Green activist Dan Barker is seeding many lives with hope
Water, Water, Everywhere
For some of the toughest environmental cleanups, plants can do it better and cheaper than we can
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In his lifetime no one did more than Ernest Thompson Seton to promote the idea that nature is a very good thing
Did they once belong to Vietnam's royal family? Perhaps. But for Ben Zucker, a "sleuth" of the gems trade, seeking the answer matters more than finding it
From a forest that flourished 207 million years ago, the Sherman Logs bear stony witness to a general's curiosity--and life in an age gone by
Life not only thrives in the heat and violence of Earth's submarine volcanoes, it may have started there
Across America, a network of scrap-metal firms is supplying much of the raw materials, iron to aluminum, that fuel the growing global economy
The Smithsonian's gardens and greenery are things of beauty and delight as well as utility
It's a violent world at the edges of our continental shelves, which could serve as a geology textbook
Using natural landforms and native grasses and plants, golf course designers are creating links that are environmentally up to par
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