Colorado River water conservation efforts get only halfway to a solution
The existing plans and commitments to reduce water use don’t add up to even half of the savings that are needed to keep the river flowing.
Bipartisan RANCH Act Offers New Opportunities for Working Lands Conservation
WASHINGTON, D.C. — With populations of grassland birds continuing to decline and the nation’s cattle herd at its smallest size in more than 70 years, legislation introduced last week in the...
Wisconsin Farms & Ranches Earn Audubon Bird-Friendly Land Certification
WISCONSIN (August 19, 2026) — At a perilous time for America’s grasslands and the birds that depend on them, the National Audubon Society is proud to recognize seven Wisconsin farms and ranches...
Just because the bill is low doesn’t mean energy is affordable
Energy is meant to improve people’s lives. Often cost prevents residents from making the most of that opportunity, so they cut back on energy use to be able to pay the bills.
What Are Nature-Based Solutions and Why Are They Needed Now?
We need to prepare California for what is coming, but the answer is not just more gray infrastructure.
Ask a Scientist: How Do We Track the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Science?
Introducing a multi-purpose tool for documenting AND fighting attacks on science that affect our health and safety.
Protecting Science from Government Intimidation
In an era where people can easily publish ideas and find an audience online, how much damage can a travel and immigration policy actually do to the integrity of science and industry? Lots.
There and Back Again: The Journeys of Two Wood Thrush
The migration journeys of Vermont’s neotropical migrants—birds that breed here in the summer and winter in the tropics—are arduous, with birds often flying thousands of miles to their wintering...
From Coastal Carolina to Canada, Check Out this Endangered Shorebird’s Journey
On a gray January day in 2025, miles out in Huntington Beach State Park, I saw the familiar face of a Piping Plover—a tiny, endangered shorebird that spends the winter on South Carolina’s coast...
Severe flooding raises deadly overdose risk in rural Appalachia, study finds – and the harm lasts for years
Disasters weaken support systems that take years to rebuild, at the same time people caught in them are under extraordinary financial and psychological stress.
Turn Off Lights at Night to Reduce Risk for Migrating Birds
GARNER, NC—Every spring and fall we make one of our biggest calls to action—turn off unnecessary outdoor lights at night for migrating birds. This fall is no different, and with migrating birds...
Uplifting BIPOC Youth in Conservation Science, Regenerative Farming and Ranching
Ten teenagers circled around a picnic table, their eyes focused on a cloth sack softly wriggling in Zach Hutchinson’s hands. Slowly opening the bag, he pulled out a Black-capped Chickadee and...