On a warm October morning, I joined biologist Kevin Manajerro and researcher Melanie Davis to load the truck with field gear before heading to a survey site overlooking the Salton Sea. The...

The conditions were perfect: sunny with a few clouds, and warm, but not oppressively so. A group of familiar faces stood around me on the red brick patio of the Richardson Bay Audubon Center’s...

If you’ve been thinking about replacing part of your lawn, the biggest question is usually: Where do I even start?A good place to begin is by shifting how you think about your yard. Instead of...

On a sunny afternoon in late October, a juvenile Bald Eagle soared back into Florida skies. State Senator Jennifer Bradley was on hand to release the eagle, and a crowd made up of homeschool...

When most people find a small brown nugget in the woods, they assume it’s animal poop. That's a good guess, but it also might be an owl pellet: a mass of bone, fur, and feathers that the owl could...

Ann Tanner is running on four hours of sleep and showing no signs of it. On a humid June morning, she greets me with enthusiasm and a surprisingly strong handshake as I join a group of volunteers...

So, you’ve found a bird egg. Maybe it was in a potted plant on the front porch, tucked into a bush’s tangled branches at the park, or, sadly, mysteriously broken and by itself on the ground...

The future of Louisiana’s power grid is currently being hashed out at the Louisiana Public Service Commission, the state’s regulator overseeing electric utilities like Entergy Louisiana and Cleco Power. In the fall of 2025, each of those utilities kicked off their own multi-year integrated-resource planning (IRP) process, which allows Commission staff and other stakeholders to

It’s one of the most consistent patterns in American politics: the president’s party, independent of party, loses seats in the election cycle in the middle of a presidential term. Political scientists call this phenomenon the “referendum model”, where widespread public discontent with the status quo guides an electoral backlash against the President’s party, reducing that

California has been preparing but will need federal support.

Alaska has lost an original. Mr. Whitekeys, or “Keys,” the beloved entertainer, writer, musician, naturalist, and longtime president of the Anchorage Audubon Society, died October 15, 2026. Known...