Ben Long

Halloween is bat season. And tequila season. And the two are connected. Whether you take it straight up, in a margarita, or, like Danielle Prewett, use it to flavor your turkey tacos, if you enjoy tequila, you are in debt to a bat. Hunters and anglers understand that the earth is the source of all...

The echoes of Ancient Rome continue in our government, engineering, and the way we count Super Bowls. But Romans also sparked a less savory phenomenon: fake hunting. Today, “canned” hunts for captive animals are regarded as violations of fair chase principles. But not so in ancient Rome, where...

The North Cape—the northernmost point in Europe, where Norway and Russia meet in the remote Barents Sea—bristles with spy ships and fighter jets. Yet a quiet invasion is happening beneath the surface of the sea. That incursion is at once delicious, highly lucrative, and ecologically disastrous...

In North America, beavers are increasingly seen as ecological superheroes, engineering riparian ecosystems in ways that benefit everything from songbirds to moose. But South America? That’s a different story. On the southernmost tip of South America—Tierra Del Fuego— the bucktoothed, flat-tailed...