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Putting the Quiet Dignity of the Wood Stork to Paper

When Franna Lusson embarks on one of her wildlife portraits, she doesn’t bother with practice sketches. She dives right in on the final sheet of paper—drawing and redrawing in bold, expressive...

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How Burrowing Owls Found a Home on an Arizona Solar Farm

This summer, more than a dozen Burrowing Owls hatched in an unusual habitat: in plastic underground tunnels within the footprint of a sprawling, 10,000-acre solar energy complex outside of Phoenix...

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Beyond the Checklist: How to Explore, Experiment, and Have Fun With Your Birding Data

Confession: I don’t make checklists while birding. I admit this with some guilt, because I know that birders’ observations fuel community science and conservation action. But I’ve worried that...

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This Woman Is Saving New England’s Swallows, One Clay Nest at a Time

On a June Sunday morning in Rowe, Massachusetts, the local library’s spare chairs fill quickly for a talk about swallows. It’s aptly timed: Lately, a community debate has erupted over the fate of...

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Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug Nation and the Wapekeka First Nation in their Conservation Vision

November 27, 2025

KI and Wapekeka Nations Declare Homelands Permanently Protected
Invite Diplomatic Talks with Province

Toronto, ON – Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug Nation (KI) and Wapekeka...

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A Landmark Year for the Salton Sea and Desert Program

The Salton Sea and Desert Program has had a historic year. From playing a pivotal role in the designation of Chuckwalla National Monument to launching our Salton Sea Leadership Program, the team...

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The Long, Exceptional Life of Frank Graham

Scrambling with my team to close Audubon’s March-April 2008 issue, we hit a wall. In the dusk of publishing’s golden age, advertising was so strong that we had depleted our entire inventory of...

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Q&A with Dr. Manuel Castellote: Listening to whales

What inspired you to study marine mammals? MC: Ever since my childhood growing up in Spain, I’ve been interested in animals. Once a chair went missing in our house, and my parents found it on the roof because I had been sitting up there, observing cats moving across the houses. I’ve been especially …

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Small-Scale Fishers: Shaping a Sustainable Future

Every day, millions of small-scale fishers set out to sea with simple gear and big purpose. These local fishers sustain coastal communities — casting nets not for large profits, but for meals, livelihoods, and survival. While the definition of a “small-scale fisher” differs across countries, these f…

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Patrice Etlin: Diving into ocean conservation

For 15 years, Patrice Etlin has embarked on expeditions around the world as a freediver and spearfisher — a passion he inherited from his father, a pioneer of spearfishing in Brazil. During these expeditions, Etlin plunged into waters populated by sharks, carpeted with vibrant corals, and swirling w…

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Science at Sea: 20 Years of the Oceana Ranger

Standing in the harbor of California’s Marina del Rey on a cool day in January 2005, actor and Oceana Board Member Ted Danson smashed a bottle of champagne to celebrate Oceana’s new “eyes and ears in the oceans”: a freshly-painted, double-masted ship christened the Oceana Ranger. Today, despite bein…

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Oceana in Ghana: New Campaigns in Allyship with Coastal Communities

This week Oceana’s Board of Directors approved the launch of operations in Ghana — West Africa’s third-largest fishing nation — where we will campaign alongside coastal communities to rebuild fish populations, increase vital nutrition, and strengthen livelihoods. Today, we begin the search for Ocean…

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These STEM activities can keep kids engaged over winter break

Winter break offers a perfect opportunity to keep kids curious and engaged without turning learning into homework.

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A five-star recipe for cutting food waste?

A comprehensive report on food waste published in March by the United Nations Environment Programme shares some sobering statistics: In 2022, people around the world wasted the equivalent of more than 1 billion meals each day. But the key take-home message is a far more encouraging one. In addition …

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Buy Not Exactly Rocket Science: The Book

I moved to ScienceBlogs earlier this year. If you want to catch up on what you missed, buy my new book and get 80 of the best blog posts from the last year. From Mexican-waving bees to snow-making bacteria, from the neuroscience of jazz to the psychology of voting, the book covers some of the […]

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