New Film Explores Extraordinary Atlantic Flyway
Filmmaker Tomas Koeck has worked for more than two years to highlight the importance of the Atlantic Flyway in his new film Flyway of Life. In this work, he features the importance of Florida and...
How single-stream recycling works − your choices can make it better
Not all plastic is the same. Old yogurt cups and milk jugs, for example, don’t play well together when being turned into new materials. However, there are solutions.
The Mississippi River: An Endangered National Treasure
The Mississippi is the world’s fourth largest river system—its basin includes all or part of 32 states and two Canadian provinces. Glacial movement shaped the Upper Mississippi River Basin...
The Mississippi River: An Endangered National Treasure
The Mississippi is the world’s fourth largest river system—its basin includes all or part of 32 states and two Canadian provinces. Glacial movement shaped the Upper Mississippi River Basin...
Wide variety of old-growth ecosystems across the US makes their conservation a complex challenge
Effective conservation of old-growth ecosystems will work best if it considers their varied ecology.
Department of the Interior Weakens Key Migratory Bird Treaty Act Protections, Increasing Risk for Millions of Birds
WASHINGTON (April 15, 2025) – On Friday, the U.S. Department of the Interior revoked a key policy under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), which protects birds from avoidable deaths caused by...
Department of the Interior Weakens Key Migratory Bird Treaty Act Protections, Increasing Risk for Millions of Birds
WASHINGTON (April 15, 2025) – On Friday, the U.S. Department of the Interior revoked a key policy under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), which protects birds from avoidable deaths caused by...
5 Ways the Chaos at HHS Could Affect Your Community’s Health
This federally-funded health ecosystem—public health, biomedical research, clinical trials, and drug approval—will all be affected by recent personnel cuts at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Volcanic ash is a silent killer, more so than lava: What Alaska needs to know with Mount Spurr likely to erupt
When volcanoes like Alaska’s Mount Spurr erupt, the ash can damage people’s lungs, smother crops and kill animals, and the harm can continue to spread long afterward.
25 years of Everglades restoration has improved drinking water for millions in Florida, but a new risk is rising
Changes to the landscape and pollution have harmed this vital ecosystem known as the ‘river of grass.’
A Living Shoreline in Pensacola Creates Jobs and Protects People and Wildlife
Fifteen years ago, I found myself throwing oranges off bridges in an attempt to understand the hydrodynamics of Mobile Bay. The Deepwater Horizon oil rig had just exploded and sunk into the Gulf of...
A Living Shoreline in Pensacola Creates Jobs and Protects People and Wildlife
Fifteen years ago, I found myself throwing oranges off bridges in an attempt to understand the hydrodynamics of Mobile Bay. The Deepwater Horizon oil rig had just exploded and sunk into the Gulf of...