On a soft stretch of tundra, where Alaska’s Colville River seeps and braids toward the nearby Beaufort Sea, Dan Ruthrauff bends to examine the sedges. His rubber boots squelch in the wet give of...
Jenn Lodi-Smith could have fallen in love with birds at many points in her life. As a young girl, she watched her mom photograph shorebirds on Assateague Island. As a teenager, she marked up a...
Jenn Lodi-Smith could have fallen in love with birds at many points in her life. As a young girl, she watched her mom photograph shorebirds on Assateague Island. As a teenager, she marked up a...
Swarmed by mosquitoes and carrying 10-foot metal poles, biologists Erik Johnson and Olivia Butler splash through a swampy nature preserve in Lafayette, Louisiana, on a mission. A concert of bird...
Swarmed by mosquitoes and carrying 10-foot metal poles, biologists Erik Johnson and Olivia Butler splash through a swampy nature preserve in Lafayette, Louisiana, on a mission. A concert of bird...
Many people have no idea that they share a neighborhood with one of the three flying squirrel species found in the United States: northern, southern, and Humboldt’s. That’s not so surprising when...
Many people have no idea that they share a neighborhood with one of the three flying squirrel species found in the United States: northern, southern, and Humboldt’s. That’s not so surprising when...
In the nearly three decades that Barbara Driscoll has lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the city has become brighter. Sunshine pours onto parts of town that she remembers being cool and shady and...
In the nearly three decades that Barbara Driscoll has lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the city has become brighter. Sunshine pours onto parts of town that she remembers being cool and shady and...
In 2023, a deadly wildfire fueled by powerful winds and drought swept Maui, leaving vibrant communities and coastal habitat in ruin. As Hawaiʻi rebuilds at a cost of more than $12 billion, officials...
In 2023, a deadly wildfire fueled by powerful winds and drought swept Maui, leaving vibrant communities and coastal habitat in ruin. As Hawaiʻi rebuilds at a cost of more than $12 billion, officials...
On a sweltering June afternoon outside the Cooper Park Houses in Brooklyn, a small group peer through binoculars at a flock of pigeons in a nearby tree. Tour leader Yamina Nater-Otero hands out field...