The brightest nights in the forest are under a full moon in winter, after the leaves have fallen. On magical moonlit nights when there is...

My parents visited last week. They live in Boston, and it was the first time I’d seen them in 15 months. In recent years, with the...

“Hello darkness, my old friend…” — Paul Simon Like many beautiful and fantastical natural phenomena, the phosphorescence of fireflies is...

As the buds split and the tree leaves unfurl, tiny caterpillars and other invertebrates hatch out to feed on the new growth. Migrating...