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On a good low tide, the ocean lets you borrow a secret. You step over slick rock and sea lettuce and the foam line left behind by the last wave. You squat. You lean in. And there — moving with the confident weirdness of something that has never once asked permission to be beautiful — is a nudibranch.
A sea slug. But also: a small, living argument against the idea that ...
Two years ago crews punched holes in three dams on the Klamath River in northern California and southern Oregon. Waters held back for decades rushed free. It wasn’t pretty: For weeks, a river of chocolate milk cut through a raw, monotone landscape of glistening, sticky mud. The dams were removed later in 2024, reconnecting the vast Klamath watershed and opening up hundreds of...
The phrase “All politics is local” was coined by former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Tip O’Neill as a strategy for winning elections through the art and sometimes deception of message framing. Notably, in the trench warfare of political campaigns, framing separates the winners from the losers.
When it comes to forest ecosystems under unprecedented “
If you’re a U.S. resident, do you know the official “state bird” of where you grew up or currently live? If so, is it a bird you can easily see in your neighborhood? And if that changed, how would it affect your relationship with the place where you live?
Conservationists and wildlife biologists have been raising concerns for years about how wildlife species’ ranges wi...
Wildlife biologist Vincent Nijman has studied the gorgeous marine mollusk called the chambered nautilus for years, but he’s never had the opportunity to observe one swimming in the ocean.
“I’ve never seen one,” he admits. “They’re very difficult to see. I know very few people that actually seen them alive. They swim quite deep. They come up a little bit higher during t...