We've begun the year with a blast of arctic air, after a tee-shirt mild holiday season, so we got to wondering about what's ahead...

Our beaches may seem relatively quiet this winter season, but there's quite a lot of activity further out in deeper water as majestic...

Even though we live in the Palmetto State, we probably hardly notice that we're surrounded by one of the earth's oldest life forms -...

While replenishment operations are underway to help preserve our island's beaches, the near future may bring the more ambitious...

This time of year, our Lowcountry skies are graced with flashes of orange, black and yellow as butterflies take to the air on their...

Debby may finally be taking her long-awaited leave from the neighborhood, but we're still in peak hurricane season with the National...

Of the 45,000 species of spiders known globally, an estimated 600 live in South Carolina. In the Lowcountry, these mid-summer days are...

With the expanding construction of new planned developments on Johns Island - a proposed new 120-home golf community on more than...

The little guy above may be barely two inches across, but fiddler crabs like this mate-seeking male are an important if little noticed...

Some of the summer visitors we most look forward to are due to start arriving in the coming weeks. It's nesting season for loggerhead...

With warming temperatures, one of Johns Island's most famous foods will begin appearing at farm stands all over the Lowcountry soon....

Even though the arrival of spring is officially not for another two weeks, the change of season is already palpable as wildlife stirs...

In your travels along Bohicket or Main roads, you may have noticed red-girded live oaks with a sign saying "Don't Chop Me Down." Given...

After the recent heavy rains that swept the Lowcountry, we can be glad of one of our favorite areas visited on our SINHG Trip schedule -...

One of the northern hemisphere's most crucial nesting sites for both migrating and sedentary shorebirds is practically within swimming...

The autumn equinox arrives this year on September 23rd (at 2:50am, to be exact), when the sun crosses the ' equator on its way south. Of...

Who doesn't like a mystery? Geologists and natural history enthusiasts have been trying to solve one for decades - the origin of an...

Weather, hot weather, is leading the news this summer (June was Earth's hottest month ever recorded, according to the NOAA), and although...

A SINHG member shared with us this wonderful photograph of a Barred Owl (Strix varia) seen perched in a backyard palm tree on the island...

One of the Lowcountry's defining characteristics is its network of marshes, rising and falling in synchrony with the tides. In an...