Ticks carry decades of history in each troublesome bite
Changes to forests, and how close people and their livestock live to them, have changed tick habitats and the risks humans face of Lyme disease and other illnesses.
Are Rising Sea Levels Impacting Roseate Spoonbills in Florida Bay?
Environmental conditions are changing in the Everglades. This is especially the case in Florida Bay, where 90 percent of Florida’s Roseate Spoonbills once raised their young. But rising water...
AI helps tell snow leopards apart, improving population counts for these majestic mountain predators
Conservationists have to search rough terrain and thousands of automated photographs to find the elusive cats. Artificial intelligence can help them work more accurately and more efficiently.
Big and Backwards on Transportation: Three Things to Know About Congress’s Reconciliation Bill
A megabill full of attacks on science and sound policy is one more reason to tell Congress no.
In This Knife’s Edge Authoritarian Moment, Say “No Kings” to President Trump
It is not too late. But soon, it could be.
Soaring US Clean Energy Momentum Now At Risk
Renewable energy in the United States has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years. But the actions of President Trump and [the Republican-controlled] Congress threaten to take a sledgehammer to that progress. Here’s the clean energy momentum at stake, the threats to that momentum, and why there is still reason for hope. Years of
Worsening Wildfires Contribute to Increasingly Unaffordable Insurance and Housing Costs
The Trump administration's policies are making it worse.
100K Louisianans Were Left Without Power. Without Transmission Planning, It’ll Keep Happening.
Why did the power go out for nearly 100,000 Louisianans over Memorial Day weekend? An Entergy-operated nuclear power plant unexpectedly went offline, meaning it was not providing power to the grid. This happened while another Entergy nuclear plant was offline for scheduled routine maintenance, and in the midst of other power plant and transmission outages.
Ancient fossils show how the last mass extinction forever scrambled the ocean’s biodiversity
Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.
Trade in a mythical fish is threatening real species of rays that are rare and at risk
They look like devils and hence are called pez diablo in Spanish, but these demonic objects are dried and mutilated versions of living rays known as guitarfish.
Annual Science Forum Inspires Collaboration, Innovation in Southwest Florida
Audubon’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary hosted the 11th Annual Corkscrew Watershed Science Forum on June 6, 2025, welcoming a record crowd of more than 130 participants to the University of...
Annual Science Forum Inspires Collaboration, Innovation in Southwest Florida
Audubon’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary hosted the 11th Annual Corkscrew Watershed Science Forum on June 6, 2025, welcoming a record crowd of more than 130 participants to the University of...