The virus, which scientists call H5N1, has spread like wildfire around the globe in recent years, surprising and horrifying ...

Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at ...

For eastern phoebes, a single nest requires so much incubating that splitting up the effort is almost sure to fail.

Listen, I needed a holiday. Even my computer was tired of me. Being patriotic, it being July 4, I went to re-live where our ...

The osprey is in decline in the Chesapeake Bay, one of its key territories, and some scientists blame overfishing of menhaden ...

Trump has announced he will open millions of acres of National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska up to oil and gas companies.

Daniel Oliker held a 33-year-old puffin from Machias Seal Island in his hands and was in awe about how it was a decade older ...

My school year stretched into late June and then I had several social engagements that I had to attend to during the rest of ...

It is now “full summer” and, as many others might be tempted to do, I have gone on my first camping trip of the year. To be ...

Joe Wein buys a lot of books, intrigued by the subject, but he doesn't always read them from cover to cover. But a decade or so ago the Los Angeles-based filmmaker happened to see a copy of Mainer ...