2+ week, 6+ day ago   (717+ words) Ian Bell was 15 the first time he went looking for birds in Central Park alone in 2021, waking most mornings before school to walk the park with a pair of binoculars, oftentimes the only teenager doing so. “I remember starting birding…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1706+ words) POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE — For nearly 60 years, warring camps have battled one another for the soul of a wind-swept peninsula with breathtaking hills, rugged cliffs, granite outcroppings, oak forests and wide expanses of pasture land and beach. Jutting off the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (222+ words) Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration is trying to open up more public lands to logging, What’s happening? On Tuesday, the administration filed a proposal to repeal the “roadless rule,” a 2001 regulation protecting nearly 45 million acres of national forests…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (688+ words) Kazakh Ministry of Environment / Anadolu / GettyAt the Ile-Balkhash Nature Reserve, a female Amur tiger named Umit is released into its natural habitat in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on August 3, 2026....

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (614+ words) Bert Gerber was woken up in the middle of the night by a loud and unfamiliar honking noise. He walked outside in his flip-flops to find his family’s barn — where about 60 turkeys and chickens slept — on fire. Gerber grabbed a…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1745+ words) PALAU, Micronesia — The ride out to sea was, in a word, unpleasant. The coastal waters of Palau, an island nation in the western Pacific, are typically calm and electric blue, like what you might see on a screensaver or postcard....

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (620+ words) On Friday morning, Denmark’s minister for nature and animal welfare stood before reporters to declare that a serious threat had been eliminated. On the lawn a few feet away, beneath a white sheet, lay the body of a young male…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (269+ words) Seemingly for the first time, a shark has invaded another shark’s privacy by filming them without consent. I don’t think the shark doing the filming consented to having a camera strapped onto its fin, so really, it’s no surprise that…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (343+ words) Humans seem preternaturally drawn to stories of animals surviving long journeys across a city, state, or country. Those Homeward Bound movies probably had something to do with it. Today, we have one such story, this one involving a rare sea…...

4+ week, 22+ hour ago   (688+ words) In my childhood, the concept of “endangered species” evoked beautiful, threatened creatures in desperate need of saving — your pandas, whales or all-American bald eagles. Today, it’s become synonymous with development projects held up over some obscure frog no one cares…...