The Bent of the River Audubon Center is no sports stadium, but it was nevertheless the site of an exciting “grand slam” this year—just with birds, not baseballs. During a single session, their...
Walking through the serene spruce forest on Hog Island, you may come across an occasional old tree that stands out among the surrounding second growth. Forest ecologists call this a wolf tree. If you...
For many, the Brown Pelican is a welcome sight on a beach visit – a sign of the warm sand and sun. They can be seen across this hemisphere’s coastlines but are most prevalent in those warmer...
With smoke in the air and wildfires once again making headlines across the state, many communities are focused on the immediate challenges of fire response and public safety. Yet these events also...
A walk in the woods has a different meaning at Stand 13 at the Rheinstrom Hill Audubon Sanctuary – getting hit by branches is a sign of success! This stand used to have a severe lack of...
The abrupt disappearance of a lake is one clear sign that the ice below is melting, and a clue to wider permafrost changes.
Scientists went to the heart of the El Niño pattern to learn from living and fossil corals. The results show El Niño’s intensifying coincides with global warming.
The Trump administration recently announced its latest salvo against offshore wind, the most recent deal in a series of deals over recent months that involves using billion dollars of US taxpayer money to buy wind developers out of their offshore leases across the country. These so-called “settlements,” crafted in the absence of any sort of
Canada is a major US supplier of fertilizer ingredients that could get pulled into Trump’s trade war. Farms can go without fertilizer for a while, but not long.
Wildland firefighters face heat from the environment, the fire and their own bodies as they work long, exhausting hours. The head of Purdue’s fire lab explains the health risks and what can help.
Under the second Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has focused its energies on examining and expanding all the things it cannot do for the people of the United States. The standards it cannot set, the deadlines it cannot hold, the public it cannot consult, the experts it cannot employ, the grants it
Incomplete and inaccurate information about data center plans and their electricity demand risks saddling ratepayers with unneeded costly fossil fuel plants.