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an eagle sitting on a nest as the sun rises

How to watch Jackie the bald eagle’s memorial service

By Laura Baisas

a painting of two ducks with black and white feathers flying above snow-capped mountrains

Since 1934, the Federal Duck Stamp has raised $1.3 billion for habitat conservation

By Laura Baisas

a caribou stands among trees on a trail

5 ‘trailblazing’ caribou return to Canada’s wilderness

By Margherita Bassi

a large brown bear walks by a river with its snout in the water

How to help Katmai’s brown bears this Fat Bear Week

By Laura Baisas

Raccoon in tree looking at camera

It’s almost time to airdrop rabies vaccines again

Yellowstone pickup truck parked in front of dozens of hats retrieved from hydrothermal vents

Yellowstone National Park retrieved 280 hats from hydrothermal vents this summer

Witness tree in Eutaw Springs, South Carolina

Arborists use supersonic air to save 300-year-old tree that survived American Revolution

snails on a paper towel with a bright orange dot on their shells

500 snails mailed to Tahiti to reclaim their natural habitat

By Margherita Bassi

a california condor chick stands in an incubator. it has fluffy white and gray feathers

Single California condor mother gets help raising her chick

By Margherita Bassi

a fat bear sitting near trees

Fat Bear Week kicks off September 22

By Laura Baisas

an eagle stands on a perch

California Wildlife Day to honor beloved bald eagle Jackie

By Laura Baisas

Clean cotton underwear beside a shovel beside decomposing cotton underwear, all on green grass

‘Proof by Underpants’ offers a cheeky way to test soil

Two men in a steamy landscape with a pipe. One man has his hands on two valves.

In 1973, Icelanders fought a volcano—and won

By Allison Futterman

a long reddish-brown snake coiled on a leaf

New snake species named in honor of Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash

By Laura Baisas

a butterfly with orange, black, and white coloring and wearing a long, thin radio transmitter sits on a green plant

Putting tiny backpacks on butterflies—for science

By Margherita Bassi

The canals and raised fields of La Mojana during wet season.

Ancient South American families built massive waterways by themselves

two eagles on a nest

Jackie the bald eagle dead at 14

By Laura Baisas

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING -AUGUST 7: Visitors walk the boardwalk as White Dome geyser erupts. The 12-foot-high geyserite cone is one of the largest in the park and has eruptions as tall as 30 feet on August 7, 2024 in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. (Photo by Jonathan Newton/Getty Images)

How Yellowstone builds boardwalks beside piping hot thermal pools

a small brown rodent standing on dirt

The cute, tiny Texas kangaroo rat needs help

By Sara Hashemi

A vintage photograph of a man in a large coat and walking stick in a rocky landscape.

In the 1890s, the U.S. hired a team of globe-trotting plant hunters

By Amy Crawford