recreation

‘They are dinosaurs’: Tahoe sees return of giant birds

Once nearly extirpated in California, sandhill cranes are coming back For centuries, there was a familiar spring and summer element…

8 months ago

Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers

Ashley Smith and Peter Hammond by the River Windrush in Oxfordshire. Photograph: Sam Frost/The Guardian A tide of effluent, broken…

8 months ago

USFWS: Don Edwards NWR relishes progress in San Francisco Bay recovery

Wildlife and people benefit from ongoing restoration Twenty years after a complex, multi-partner effort began to restore south San Francisco…

9 months ago

Plan to replace beach sand, build ‘living shorelines’ adopted by LA County supervisors

Climate change produces more violent storms and bigger waves that increase beach erosion Eroding sand along Malibu beach. The sand…

1 year ago

Fiberglass – An Overlooked Aquatic Pollutant

From garbage gyres that choke aquatic life to microplastics that accumulate in the human body, plastic pollution in the ocean is a huge problem. People are…

1 year ago