Great Backyard Bird Count – Join us each February when the world comes together to watch, learn about, count, and celebrate birds. Each year people from around the world come together to watch, learn about, count, and celebrate birds. Join us in February!

Student: What’s your plans for Valentine’s day Mr. Hingst?

Me: Birding…

What if just 1 in 10 people changed how they eat, drive, heat or shop? Everyday lifestyle choices can add up to significant climate impact when even a small share of the population makes them.

Small changes make big differences.

Emergence of a novel drinking innovation in an urban population of sulphur-crested cockatoos, Cacatua galerita Abstract. The spread of innovation has been proposed as a potentially important source of adaptive behavioural responses to anthropogenic change. Yet, whil

Clever Cockatoos Have Figured Out How to Drink From Water Fountains

US carbon pollution rose in 2025. Experts blame cold winter, high natural gas prices, data centers Researchers say the United States emitted 2.4% more greenhouse gases in 2025 than the previous year.

Well that’s not great.

"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot."

– Carl Sagan

North America's largest wildlife overpass opens over busy, remote road About 100,000 vehicles travel in the remote area each day, the Colorado Department of Transportation said.

Working with nature to reinvent infrastructure. So many wins with projects like this.

The Longest-Running Evolution Experiment Has Been Going For 80,000 Generations The experiment has let organisms evolve over 80,000 generations so far in 12 different lines from a common ancestral colony, to see how they compare to each other.

Hey! I know that guy. @relenski.bsky.social

Not ideal for those people that might be impacted by changing weather patterns…which includes everyone. 🤦‍♂️

A Radical Climate Proposal Aims to Channel Seawater Into a Giant Egyptian Desert to Fight Sea Level Rise Flooding Egypt’s vast Qattara Depression with seawater could slightly lower global sea levels and reshape climate adaptation.

Well that’s an interesting idea.

An illustration of a man standing in water that comes up to his neck surrounded by fish, with text: I dropped out of high school. Now, I’m living my dream as a fish scientist

"No one should be made to feel inferior or that they do not belong in science because of their origins." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/48JF6Pg

Thoughtful choices about your everyday actions can make a positive impact. Thoughtlessness can destroy ecosystems. Please consider switching to shade coffee. It tastes great and works with the environment instead of against it.

Colorado Is Building the 'World's Largest' Wildlife Overpass, Giving Elk and Other Big Creatures a Safe Path to Cross a Busy Freeway The completed overpass will be 200 feet wide by 209 feet long, forming a bridge across six lanes of traffic that see more than 100,000 vehicles each day

Colorado is building the world’s largest wildlife overpass.

Domestication syndrome is a collection of traits that emerge when animals adapt to living closely with humans.

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Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), a new megachilid with demon-like horns that visits the Critically Endangered Marianthus aquilonaris (Pittosporaceae) A new species Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) is described from both sexes. Megachile lucifer sp. nov. is of conservation importance, as it is a visitor to the range-restri...

A new species of bee has been identified! Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), has demon-like horns and visits a critically endangered flower in Australia

Reef restoration will support native fish in Saginaw Bay Most reefs are associated with tropical waters and colorful fish, not the Great Lakes, but the Saginaw Bay was once the home of many rock reefs. Now, efforts are underway to restore this lost habitat.

Fresh water reef restoration in Lake Huron.

Just leave the leaves alone.

Study finds EVs quickly overcome their energy-intensive build to be cleaner than gas cars Producing and manufacturing electric vehicles and their batteries uses a lot of energy, leading many to be skeptical about the environmental benefits of going electric.

Especially if they are powered by the solar panels on your roof. 😏

The global biomass of mammals since 1850 - Nature Communications Here, the authors estimate mammalian biomass from the 1850’s to today, tracking an increase of over five-fold in human and domesticated mammal biomass and a two-fold decrease in wild mammal biomass. R...

95% of all mammal on the planet consist of us and our domesticated food. 😳😳😳

YouTube video by PBS Terra We Just Crossed Our FIRST Tipping Point… And It’s NOT What You Think

Positive news on the climate front is always welcome.

Jane Goodall, conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.

Jane Goodall, conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died. Truly no one like her. She will be missed.

Hard to overcome invasive species, climate change and overfishing all at once.

News Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say

Iberian harvester ants are the only known organism that propagates two species by itself, according to new research.

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Proud to say I got to play a small part in this project. Great to see school districts stepping up and doing their part in the climate crisis.

So many cool native species to find. Definitely earned a few @inaturalist.bsky.social badges this weekend.

YouTube video by Animalogic This Plant Is A Vampire

Plants with no chlorophyll, no leaves, and a root system they abandon. Dodders definitely don’t fit neatly into what makes a plant a plant.