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In California, a bird that nearly vanished from Earth is now bold enough to "selfie" a wildfire camera
1+ hour, 46+ min ago (394+ words) On August 17, a trail camera in California’s backcountry caught something its designers never anticipated: two California condors, one of them boldly pecking at the lens as if demanding a closer look. The camera belongs to ALERTCalifornia, a wildfire monitoring network…...
American robins built nests on Ohio solar panels that tilt throughout the day, then made them taller and warmer so the eggs would stay put while their “tree” moved
9+ hour, 46+ min ago (530+ words) The American Midwest’s farming lands are being repurposed for clean energy. The solar farms appearing in previously open fields are creating new environments for wildlife. One research facility in Ohio sees single-axis tracking panels tilting from sunrise to sunset to…...
Española Island got its 2,300 giant tortoises back from 15 founders, and the vegetation that grew over the bare rock while they were gone has cost an endangered albatross some of its nesting colonies
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (771+ words) An animal the weight of a motorcycle moves through dry scrub at the pace of a slow tide. It stops at a fallen cactus pad and takes it whole, spines and all. Behind it lies a flattened track of crushed…...
Crews pulled 117 creosote pilings out of a Salish Sea beach in two and a half days, and the herring eggs laid a few hundred feet away are the reason a rotting pier mattered at all
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (806+ words) They were still standing when the gravel barges stopped coming. Sawn off stumps in the shallows, tar black below the tide line, silvered above it. Anything wooden that sits in salt water is supposed to be eaten by borers or…...
Crews carried 271 steelhead trout out of a burned Los Angeles canyon in buckets days before the rain came, and the creek they were poured into on the Santa Barbara coast had young fish in it by spring
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (771+ words) The canyon was still black when the crews waded in. Water ran clear over the stones, which was the strange part. The hillside above had burned down to stubble and the creek underneath it looked almost untouched by any of…...
Two hikers encountered a mother grizzly with two or three newborn cubs near Old Faithful, and Yellowstone kept trails, campsites, and fishing water closed until crews could no longer find her tracks or feeding sites
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (578+ words) A mother grizzly bear and her cubs kept part of Yellowstone National Park shut down for several weeks. Trails, backcountry campsites, and fishing areas west of Old Faithful were restricted after a grizzly bear encounter involving two hikers. Yellowstone reopened…...
A North Carolina owl camera watched a great horned owl invade a barn and kill fledglings, then the survivors began puffing themselves up whenever they recognized the predator
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (626+ words) This spring, a livestream followed five barn owl owlets in a North Carolina nesting box. But the camera captured something most people rarely see. Around midnight on June 24, a large owl entered the barn. A great horned owl attacked and…...
Corn buntings that had all but vanished from England's fields raised 5 nests inside an Oxfordshire solar park, and every one fledged while four in ten failed just beyond the fence
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (822+ words) From the road, the array near Watchfield in Oxfordshire looks like any other, rows of dark panels on low frames with grass between. Down in that grass, something was happening that no one had documented on a British solar site…...
A Florida nuclear plant logged 19,987 sea-turtle capture events over 47 years after its cooling pipes kept pulling turtles into a canal, and the accidental dataset revealed nomads, residents, and seasonal visitors hiding among animals that all looked roughly the same size
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (577+ words) The St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant off Florida’s Hutchinson Island relies on huge amounts of water moving through its cooling canal. It is fed by massive submerged intake pipes. Marine turtles swimming along the Atlantic coast have been swept into…...
A one-in-a-million white bison calf was born on an Iowa refuge, and just 47 days later it was dead as a preliminary exam found infections inside and outside its body
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (605+ words) A white bison calf was born on April 30, 2026. The calf was seen at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa. White bison are very rare. Immediately after birth, the calf drew attention from wildlife watchers and visitors. It would draw…...