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The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was an ecological disaster of a caliber our country hadn't seen before and hasn't since, and, as author Timothy Egan points out in his book "The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bow

For those times on the trail when serious hiking pants are overkill.

A Triple-A pitcher shocked the baseball world with a pitch clocked at an insanely fast 105 mph. Here's why we won't see pitchers throw it much faster than thisever.

David Allen Sibley, heir-apparent to Roger Tory Peterson in introducing Americans to their avian neighbors, has created this wonderful poster of some of our most familiar species. These are the birds we grew up with, glimpsed while peering out the dini

Writer, musician, and composer Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky, is taking the sights and sounds of Antarctica on a world tour. His creation, Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica, is a 70-minute collage of aural and visual elements that creates a portrait o

Tiffany blue: It typically symbolizes sapphires and pearls and luxury. But to Fernanda Kellogg, president of the Tiffany and Co. Foundation and one of Audubon’s 2010 Women in Conservation Rachel Carson Award winners, it represents the ocean. “I th

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The carnage thrust daily into America’s face has also provided Audubon and its allies with the chance to recoup the loss of fish and wildlife and, at the same time, protect the Gulf Coast from flooding and oil pollution. At last we appear close to co

Earlier that day photographer Charlie Riedel and other press members helicoptered to Louisiana’s East Grand Terre Island with the state’s governor, Bobby Jindal. They planned to document progress on a sand berm being built to protect the barrier is

Biologist Gordon Warrick was at the wheel as we bounced across the tallgrass prairie in a John Deere Trail Gator, a six-wheeled, snub-nosed utility vehicle that submerged us in the prairie as wholly as a swimmer cleaving the sea. Autumn, with its rich

There was a time when the railroad ran through most towns in America, when a trip to the seashore, mountains, or desert, even the wilderness, began aboard a train. Today trains can still take you to natural places where the wonders of a national or sta

Sunlight is easing its grip on the coastal plain of southeastern Mexico, and the people of Chichicaxtle are coming out to play. There’s a girl’s softball team fielding grounders on one village green and a men’s soccer match in full swing on the o

So far most of the media and conservationists’ attention in the Gulf of Mexico has focused on resident populations of birds such as brown pelicans. But a whole new cast of characters will soon be winging its way south on a path to danger. This fall m

Even people who claim to like butterflies may fail to understand much about them, regarding them as mere symbols or as scraps of flying color, not as living insects. Newspaper stories about monarch butterfly migration are replete with references to the

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