Data centers’ neighbors weigh in on how to manage them
The people of northern Virginia have been living with data centers for many years. But even they are resisting new developments. And they have specific wishes for how to regulate them.
America’s Natural Heritage: National Monuments Are Essential for Birds—and for All of Us
America’s 138 national monuments may not draw quite the same spotlight as national parks like Yosemite or Yellowstone, but they welcome some 20 million visitors each year and safeguard some of our...
Audubon Champions Coastal Resilience Bills during National Estuaries Week
Last week, a bipartisan group of Congress members, led by Reps. Brian Mast (R-FL), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), and Mike Haridopolos (R-FL), introduced a resolution dedicating this...
How Sweet: More Maple Syrup Producers Are Managing Their Forests for Birds
At Nature’ly Sweet farm, located in Merrill, Wisconsin, owner Christopher Petron doesn’t only cherish the sugar maple trees that help produce the syrup he sells. He prizes the full diversity of...
11 Native Shrubs to Make Your Yard a Wonderland for Birds
Sure, trees and flowers are great, but tucked between them is another plant just as crucial for birds and worthy of your yard space: The humble and life-giving shrub.But what exactly is a shrub...
An Export Ban Isn’t Enough to Increase Domestic EV Battery Recycling
Battery recycling is essential for jobs, mineral security, and a cleaner future, but is the US ready to meet the challenge?
The Democracy We Must Protect Together
Now is the time for folks from different political traditions, industries, communities, and issue areas to come together around a minimum set of commitments essential to democratic self-government.
What Teddy Roosevelt Knew and Trump Doesn’t Get: Public Lands Need Science
US Forest Service founders Gifford Pinchot and President Teddy Roosevelt would be rolling in their graves knowing what has become of the world’s largest wildland fire research organization, the very institution they helped build. Teddy Roosevelt helped establish 230 million acres of public lands during his presidency and in 1905 designated Gifford Pinchot as the
Extra Time, Quiet Cuts: Surface Transportation Reauthorization Extension
Layoffs, construction stoppages, and service cuts could follow from a sudden break in federal funding
Notes from the World Seabird Conference
Just before I left for Tasmania, I watched Short-tailed Shearwaters (Ardenna tenuirostris) passing Washington's coast, headed the same direction I was about to go. Around 18 million of these...
We’re Getting Better at Surveying Seabirds
Anna Vallery, Coastal Program Manager for Audubon Washington, has long been interested in improving methods used for monitoring seabird and waterbird colonies. She is excited to keep pushing this...
From the Mountains to the Coast: Communities Exchange Birdwatching Tourism Experiences in Oaxaca, Mexico
Birds connect territories. They can also connect the people who live in them, their knowledge, and the different ways of building opportunities through conservation.With that idea in mind, members of...