Seven months into the US conflict with Iran, with no clear end in sight, the global oil market has now largely exhausted the safety measures that exist to keep a lid on petroleum prices.

Every year on the fourth Sunday in September, people around the world celebrate the many values of Earth’s waterways. It’s World Water Day! We are celebrating by highlighting the incredible...

Who can resist the home supply stores, nurseries, and even supermarkets all seeming to burst with eye-catching blooms, winter vegetables, shrubs for every nook and cranny, and trees? Fall is by far...

The Colorado River has been telling us something for more than half a century, and this year the message got harder to ignore. In the 1960s, the river stopped flowing regularly into its delta, once a...

The Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument would stretch from Manhattan to Omaha if laid out across the continental United States. Yet, you may never have heard of this diverse oceanic site in...

Every spring, people from across the country and around the world make their way to Rowe Sanctuary to experience one of nature’s great migrations: the Sandhill Cranes roosting along the Platte...

Every spring, people from across the country and around the world make their way to Rowe Sanctuary to experience one of nature’s great migrations: the Sandhill Cranes roosting along the Platte...

The photo essay opening­ this issue brings you to Teshekpuk Lake in Alaska’s Western Arctic. I traveled there to see a place Audubon has long worked to help protect. Before I arrived, I understood...

The cover of the issue you are holding might be your first brush with a Yellow-eared Parrot, a species so rare that fewer than 100 were known to exist in the late 1990s. Or perhaps it’s the first...

In the South, one thing you’re taught early on is not to mess with snakes—especially cottonmouths. The hemotoxic venom of these semi-aquatic pit vipers has been honed by evolution to dissolve...