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.
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...
Can Teshekpuk Lake, a Vital Arctic Refuge, Be Saved? Gerrit Vyn Hopes His Images Will Help
In recent years, conservation photographer Gerrit Vyn has ventured repeatedly to a place most people have never heard of, much less visited: Teshekpuk Lake. Flat, buggy, and remote, this wetland...
Act 181 and Criterion 8C: A New Mechanism to Maintain Forests and Habitat
Vermont’s forests are the crown jewel of our landscape: they define the state and support healthy communities, robust and diverse ecosystems, and the economic vitality of the state. Healthy forests...
How Women Hunters Are Reviving a Fading Tradition—and a Vital Conservation Tool
This isn’t your typical girls’ weekend. Not that you can tell from the accommodations—a charming farmhouse in Montana’s picturesque Bitterroot Valley—or the wine bottles on the kitchen...
Using Your Audubon and Audubon Florida Naturalist Magazines to Make Art
What do you do when the Audubon or Audubon Florida's Naturalist magazines come to your door? Read them cover to cover of course! And since we know you want to remember them into the future, we come...
The Fight Over Toxic Mining Returns to Minnesota’s Boundary Waters
When Jason Zabokrtsky first paddled Minnesota’s Boundary Waters in 1997, he was stunned by a vast wilderness. “It was powerful to see that there were still places like this in the world,” says...
How One Vermont Forester Brought a 175-Acre Woodland Back to Life
A black bear visited Ethan Tapper’s orchard in the foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountains this spring. It grabbed a young pear tree, bit down, and ripped the trunk in half. Days after Tapper cut...
So Many Birds, So Little Time (or Bands)
The morning began just before sunrise with competing Great Horned Owls calling back and forth across Oliver Reservoir in the far southwest of the Nebraska panhandle. It was the first chilly fall-like...