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Hilary Swain, Ph.D

"Success isn’t necessarily winning. It’s not a competition. It’s, at the end of the day, knowing that you did the very best you could. You can be…

Abundance Of Elephants Strains South African Game Reserves

While most of the news about elephants out of Africa concerns poaching and falling numbers, South Africa has the opposite problem. Its elephant populations have grown greater than the country can manage.

Paradise Recreation and Parks Director Dan Efseaff walks toward the Little Feather River Canyon in Butte County, Calif. Efseaff wants to try a radical idea in Paradise: Pay people not to rebuild in this slice of canyon, to create a safety buffer to prevent future wildfires from spreading.

After Paradise, Living With Fire Means Redefining Resilience

Across the West, hundreds of communities are vulnerable to wildfires. But wildfire and recovery experts warn that the impulse to re-create what was there before disaster is misguided and dangerous.

In 'Once More We Saw Stars,' Grief And Love Together

Jayson Greene's young daughter died in a tragic random accident; his new memoir chronicles how he and his wife got to a place where they understood they could still experience joy.