The 125th Christmas Bird Count in Florida
Rare species and extremely high numbers are excluded from this summary if details were inadequate or lacking; see our final paragraph for species deleted from Florida CBCs this season. Bold-faced...
Winter storms blanket the East, while the U.S. West is wondering: Where’s the snow?
Here’s what snow forecasters are watching, and why skiers and other snow lovers shouldn’t lose hope.
Iran’s president calls for moving its drought-stricken capital amid a worsening water crisis – how Tehran got into water bankruptcy
Iran’s sprawling cities and irrigated agriculture, along with tight market controls, have left the country vulnerable to drought. There are steps that would help.
When the world’s largest battery power plant caught fire, toxic metals rained down – wetlands captured the fallout
The Moss Landing battery fire became an unintended experiment – showing how burning lithium-ion cells scattered nickel, cobalt and manganese over a protected marsh.
Kyoto and the Stories We Still Need to Tell About Fossil Fuel Obstruction
This past weekend, I walked into Kyoto, the Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Lincoln Center in New York, curious to see how they would turn the long, tedious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and UN Climate meetings (known as COPs) that I attend into entertaining theater. I must say, they did an incredible
As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste
Despite the administration’s claim of streamlining the government to make its operations more efficient, a range of recent federal policies have, in fact, exacerbated food wastage.
125th Christmas Bird Count in Canada
This year marked the 125th season of the Christmas Bird Count (CBC) in Canada, a milestone in our long-running volunteer-science tradition. As in past years, thousands of people of all ages braved...
125th Christmas Bird Count in Canada
This year marked the 125th season of the Christmas Bird Count (CBC) in Canada, a milestone in our long-running volunteer-science tradition. As in past years, thousands of people of all ages braved...
A Day in the Life: Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Volunteer
It is a sunny Monday morning in November, and Amy Swanson is dressed for the chill in the air. She arrives at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary with a light jacket over her uniform and is ready for the day's...
A Day in the Life: Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Volunteer
It is a sunny Monday morning in November, and Amy Swanson is dressed for the chill in the air. She arrives at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary with a light jacket over her uniform and is ready for the day's...
Giving Thanks in This Climate Moment
It's a time to be defiant, but also compassionate.
How pecans went from ignored trees to a holiday staple – the 8,000-year history of America’s only native major nut crop
Pecans are a truly American nut: They grew on George Washington’s estate, and they flew to space on an Apollo mission.