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Exposed: The Most Polluted Place in the United States
The most polluted place in the United States — perhaps the world — is one most people don’t even know. Hanford Nuclear Site sits in the flat lands of eastern Washington. The facility — one of three...
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Birding for All: How to Make Enjoying Birds More Accessible
Freya McGregor is adamant that anyone can be a birder. You don’t have to be able to identify the birds you see or keep lists of the rarities you’ve spotted. You don’t need binoculars — or even sight. A...
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Rekindling the Practice of Cultural Burning: An Act of Climate Hope
After more than 100 years of suppressing the West’s fires, land managers and government agencies are finally warming to the idea that fire can be beneficial — and necessary — for many landscapes. This...
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Drought to Deluge: Managing Water for Climate Extremes
The year began with a soaking for California. Nine atmospheric rivers doused the state, leaving at least 20 lives lost, roads washed out, and communities underwater. Though it may have felt that way,...
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3 Billion Birds Lost: What Will It Take to Halt the Staggering Decline?
In 2019 a staggering study revealed North America had lost nearly 3 billion birds since 1970 — almost 30% of the total population, with declines in both common and rare species. Grassland birds were...
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What Sound Can Tell Us About Our Changing World
After Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico in 2017, photos showed downed trees, flooded communities, collapsed homes and buckled roads. But what did the aftermath sound like? Ben Gottesman, now a...
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‘We Found Plastic on the Seabed in Antarctica and I Just Cried’
Emily Cunningham could hear the sounds of whales breathing and the creaking of ice. The marine biologist — bursting with excitement — had just arrived in Antarctica aboard an expedition ship but found...
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The Future of Water
It’s time for a reckoning … with water. It’s central to our bodies, the planet, our modern lives, and yet we continue to use it unwisely, to pollute rivers, to overdraft groundwater, to dewater...
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Carnivore Conservation Is Tougher in the Mountains
When the Yakama Nation detected a wolverine on Washington’s Mt. Adams in 2005, outside the animal’s known distribution, Jocelyn Akins wanted to learn more. Was it part of a population that hadn’t been...
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The Great Plains: Bringing Back an ‘American Serengeti’
Some people call the Great Plains “flyover country.” Outdoor enthusiasts sail above it on the way to the mountains of Acadia, California’s redwoods or Utah’s red rock. Conservationists, too, have...
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From Observation to Action: How iNaturalist Spurs Conservation
A lot has changed since 2008. That’s when Ken-ichi Ueda turned his master’s project at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Information into a website called iNaturalist, which allowed...
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What One Researcher Learned Studying Grizzlies for 40 Years
Bruce McLellan recalls seeing his first grizzly bear when he was only 4 years old. It must have made an impression. He became a wildlife ecologist and devoted his career to studying the hulking bruins...
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Saving Africa’s Most Endangered Big Cat
Today we know a good bit about cheetahs: They’re the fastest land animal, going from 0 to 60 mph in three seconds. They’re expert hunters, although they often lose their prey to bigger predators. And...
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Building a Flock: How an Unlikely Birder Found Activism — and Community — in...
When Hurricane Katrina walloped New Orleans in August 2005, it destroyed Trish O’Kane’s home and neighborhood and took some of her neighbors’ lives. As the toxic floodwaters receded, O’Kane, who had...
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Meet the Malaysian Conservationist Devoting Her Life to Protecting Fireflies
When I was a child, my mother instructed me to stop playing outside and come home at the sight of the first twilight firefly. For many years I believed what most children believe: that when darkness...
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Seattle’s Sustainability Director on Successes, Failures, and Lessons for...
Jessyn Farrell is late meeting me at the Seattle Green Festival in early July — not because she’s late entering the conference, but because it seems she can’t walk through a crowd of sustainability and...
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How Concerned Neighbors Kept a Conservation Dream Alive
WHITEHORSE, Yukon — Thirty minutes’ drive outside northern Canada’s largest city lies one of its best-kept secrets. The Yukon Wildlife Preserve spans more than 700 acres and features 12 iconic Yukon...
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