What happens to fish (and humans) when fish eat plastic?
Many fish eat microplastics. Here’s why and what we can do about it.
Wildlife & wild places
Can you imagine a world filled with more wildlife and wild places? So can we. And we’re working together to make it happen.
Every minute, we’re losing two football fields worth of wild lands, and too many animal species face extinction. It’s up to us to turn things around. We imagine an America with more mountaintops where all we see is forests below, with more rivers that flow wild and free, more shoreline where all we hear are waves. An America with abundant wildlife, from butterflies and bees floating lazily in your backyard, to the howl of a coyote in the distance, to the breach of a whale just visible from the shore. Together, we can work toward this better future.
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Six highways in the sky aid in seabird migration
Southern Resident orca update: life in the pod
Whale songs share similiarities to human language
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Reconnecting Nature
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Hundreds turn out to learn about Southern Resident orcas
Southern Resident orcas are struggling, and hundreds showed up to learn more about why.
Whales’ baleen holds clues about the species’ reaction to whaling
A forgotton collection of baleen helped Smithsonian scientist discover evidence of the stress caused by a resumption of whaling.
More of our ocean wildlife spared from drilling
The Biden administration’s action blocks offshore drilling in the Pacific, Atlantic, Eastern Gulf of Mexico and parts of the Bering Sea.
Southern Resident orca mom mourns the loss of another calf
Tahlequah, famous for losing a calf in 2018, just lost another.
The monarch butterfly and the Endangered Species Act
Key things to know about the monarch butterfly, its decline, and protections it may receive from the Endangered Species Act.