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...

Miles Wu will never forget the first time he saw an Indigo Bunting. This past May, as the 14-year-old was finishing his shift as a collision monitor with Project Safe Flight, he heard a thump; the...

Under the fluorescent light of a Discount Tire sign, hundreds of people gathered in a strip mall parking lot near Austin, Texas. In between chats with volunteer naturalists, many lounged in lawn...

On a Saturday afternoon in June, volunteers sat at tables in the Chicago Architecture Center quietly building birds out of scrap fabric. One cut out black strips for a Magnolia Warbler’s breast...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Battery recycling is essential for jobs, mineral security, and a cleaner future, but is the US ready to meet the challenge?

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.