Steppe grey shrike are native to parts of northern China, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, breeding in temperate, semi-arid grassland. A “steppe” is a vast, flat area with short grasses, scattered ...

In December 1997, poacher Vladimir Markov wounded a Siberian (Amur) tiger, stole its kill—and then vanished into the Russian taiga. The tiger tracked him back to his cabin, waited, and delivered ...

From the vast Amazon to Siberia’s frozen taiga, Earth’s major forests hold the planet’s largest carbon reserves, silently storing billions of tons that regulate our global climate balance.