4+ hour, 11+ min ago   (1041+ words) Hidden within even the world’s densest cities, connecting trees, window flowerboxes, parks and gardens, are a complex series of roads you won’t find on any map. No GPS service tracks them, and they’ll never be visible to any of us....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1119+ words) Even as summer settles across the Southeast and the chorus of spring begins to fade, one bird’s song continues to tell an important conservation story. The first sign of spring in many longleaf pine forests isn’t something you see. It’s…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (501+ words) Boze Hancock, senior marine habitat restoration scientist for TNC working on the effort, tells how the burgeoning offshore wind industry of the North Sea might offer a chance to restore Europe’s native oyster. We documented 4.3 million acres of oyster reef…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (95+ words) Read more about how TNC helps support oyster aquaculture and restoration. After harvesting and drying, Wicks sells her sugar kelp not for food but as a soil amendment to nearby farmers, vineyards, and gardeners. “There’s an overabundance of these nutrients…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (885+ words) Marine biologist Nicole Craig on how Super Reefs, coral research and songwriting can help shape a future for the Mesoamerican Reef. It’s hardly an unusual beach sight: a gull circles overhead and dips towards the water. Such a bird captured…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (403+ words) Biodiversity—the variability of living organisms across every ecosystem on Earth — can only be protected once it’s understood. And understanding it takes monitoring: careful, consistent, on-the-ground observation. “That practical workshop was like the beginning of everything,” recalls González, today the…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (671+ words) Your field guide to those glowing eyes you see at night. During winter, many of our animal encounters happen after dark. We may glimpse the shiny gaze of deer along the roadside or spot the brief glimmer of fox’s glimpse…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1025+ words) Many of my childhood days were spent in creeks, flipping rocks and sweeping nets, seeing what small creatures I could find. After an afternoon among crayfish, frogs and minnows, I’d spend the evening paging through field guides, trying to identify…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago   (503+ words) Just a short drive from the beaches and buzzing vacation spots of the Outer Banks lies one of the East Coast’s most remarkable natural refuges for birds and wildlife: Nags Head Woods Ecological Preserve. Owned and managed by The Nature…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (460+ words) Regular readers will know that we often write about Australian wildlife. But more often than not, we’re intrigued by the more charismatic species… tree kangaroos and bowerbirds, cassowaries and ghost bats. These three new nature books from CSIRO make the…...