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Writer J. Frank Dobie wished he could be sung to sleep and woken by a coyote chorus every day. But not everyone regards coyotes so amiably. Who are these song dogs? And do they deserve their bad reputation?

With the celebration Friday of Earth Day, there's occasion for both despair, and hope. In the 52 years since the first Earth Day, we've witnessed…

Twelve thousand years ago, the great ice sheets that had long covered most of Canada and the northern U.S. receded. The jet stream – the continent's storm…

The Rio Grande – like all the world's great rivers – meets many needs, and means many things. It's water for drinking and farming – a foundation for…

Ground sloths weren’t cute, cuddly tree-dwellers like sloths today. They weighed 500 pounds and stood nine-feet tall. Who were these Ice Age creatures? And what have they taught us about the desert’s past?

Big Bend National Park is a land of superlatives, and that extends to an area of primal interest: the Age of Reptiles.Big Bend's unparalleled fossil…

In the last pages of The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, F. Scott Fitzgerald's narrator, imagines North America as first seen through European eyes. For a…

“Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror,” the poet Rainer Marie Rilke writes, “which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because…

“How do you know but ev'ry bird that cuts the airy way is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?” In his characteristically visionary…

There are few things as magical as flowing water in the desert. Such places refresh both the body and the spirit, and in a land like ours, their presence…