Yes, breathing wildfire smoke can harm your health – here’s what you can do to protect yourself
When you breathe in wildfire smoke, harmful particles can travel deep into your body.
Unprecedented Earth: Record Super El Niño, Marine Heatwaves, and Heat Domes
There's a roughly 90% chance of this El Niño becoming the strongest in recorded history.
Repeated storms are turning disaster recovery into a way of life, and leaving communities facing disaster fatigue
Increasing flash flooding is exhausting communities as they’re hit again and again.
When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?
Courts have long let utilities seize private property to build transmission lines. Does that hold if the power flows to a single data center?
Wait—Do Woodpeckers Kill Trees?
If you’ve ever witnessed a Pileated Woodpecker chiseling away at a tree trunk, you might have wondered if all that wood pecking was taking a toll on the tree. Pileated nest holes, after all, can...
When can a power company take your land for a data center?
Courts have long let utilities seize private property to build transmission lines. Does that hold if the power flows to a single data center?
Beach Days: Sharing the Shore with Birds and People
When setting up for a beach day, I like to look for the most open area I can find, as do many other beachgoers. An ideal spot to sit has as few people as possible, no disturbances, no one running...
Science Is Under Attack. But Scientists Are Speaking Up
If finalized, a new federal rule would turn scientific grant-making upside down, push peer review to the side, and make every funding decision premised on whether it accords with the White House’s political priorities.
What Election Data Transparency Is and What It Should Never Be
At UCS, we believe that increasing election data transparency is crucial to the study of elections and, more importantly, improving elections for every voter. However, the Trump administration is weaponizing the idea of election data transparency for its own authoritarian means: using it to target political opponents, creating federal lists of “eligible” voters to unconstitutionally
It may be almost impossible to make data centers pay their ‘fair share’ of electricity costs
Setting a price for power might seem straightforward, but in reality it’s extremely complicated – and residential customers have very little influence in the decision.
Audubon Flocks to Washington, D.C.
Board Chair Emeritus Heidi McCree, Senior Policy Director Beth Alvi, and Senior Manager of Everglades Policy McKee Gray met with members of Florida's Congressional Delegation in Washington, D.C. this...
From Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Member to Coastal Advocate: Rogerio DaSilva
It all started with an Audubon membership. Rogerio DaSilva, a Naples-area nature photographer, became a member of and donor to Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. While he loved photographing the wading birds...