You may have spent summer evenings chasing fireflies around the backyard with a mason jar as a kid, but it’s possible there aren’t as many of those twinkling bugs lighting up the night sky these days.

Picture this: you’ve waited years to get into Congaree National Park’s annual firefly event. On the night you finally get to go, as you’re ooh-ing and ahh-ing at the beautiful twinkling fireflies, you ...

In Southern Appalachia, late May through June is a time of birth. Wildflower blooms erupt, fawns and cubs scamper through the woods, and baby birds test their wings. When night falls, other creatures ...

On a recent trip to Illinois, Charley LeCrone took his wife and two young daughters to see the fireflies he remembered fondly from childhood. But when dusk fell, the fireflies’ blinking yellow-green ...