environment

North America’s smallest tern is an expert fisher — hover, dive, catch, repeat!

Long Island Sound is home to a living fossil: the horseshoe crab. They have been around for nearly half a billion years, but today this hardy and helmeted species faces new challenges.

A $4.5 million salt marsh restoration project by Audubon Connecticut at the Great Meadows Marsh in Stratford is already seeing a positive impact on the local ecosystem within a year of construction finishing, an Audubon official said.

Ruddy Turnstone gets that name from the way it forages, turning over rocks and shells.

Beach patrol but make it adorable — meet the tiny but mighty Piping Plover!

The nation's oldest continuously operated weather observatory in Milton, Massachusetts, keeps track of a surprising climate indicator: the date the first blueberry ripens.

Heat waves are becoming more common and intense as a result of climate change — and roads are suffering as a result. Are the nation's roads up to meeting the challenge of a warmer, wetter future?

America’s symbol of strength and freedom, with a conservation story to prove it!

As much of the Eastern U.S. experiences potentially record-breaking daytime temperatures, the nights are also staying unusually warm, leaving the human body no time to recover.

More people are learning to coexist with black bears, as their habitat shrinks and they have more offspring.