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What Even Is Local LA Seafood?

If you don’t want fish flown in from halfway around the world, if you want your seafood to be as local as your fruit and veg, you’re going to need a definition. What even is L.A. seafood?

Listening to Nature: The Emerging Field of Bioacoustics

Researchers are increasingly placing microphones in forests and other ecosystems to monitor birds, insects, frogs, and other animals. As the technology advances and becomes less costly, proponents argue, bioacoustics is poised to become an important remote-sensing tool for conservation.

Although she ‘can’t save them all,’ wildlife rehabilitation expert is saving as many as she can

Shawnie Williams is founder and director of San Diego Fawn Rescue, rescuing and rehabilitating mule deer fawns

These Researchers Are Using AI Drones to More Safely Track Wildlife

WildTrack can identify individual animals with 95% accuracy, all without getting up close or using camera traps. 

Grand Canyon reports record number of condor chicks hatched

Grand Canyon National Park documented the fifth wild hatched California condor chick in the Southwestern wild population Oct. 10, making it an annual record number of chicks, or nestlings, within the region.

A Conversation with Author Jenny Odell

Could “placefulness” cure our modern malaise?

See the incredible National Wildlife Magazine 2019 photo contest winners

Wildlife photographers capture incredible images around the world — and the National Wildlife Federation is once again honoring the best of the best.

Meet the California man trying to save honeybees by building them hives

The staggering decline of honey bee colonies has alarmed experts across the United States, but an unconventional apiculturist in California thinks he has found a way to save them.

Turning a New Leaf: Rethinking Leaves.

Leaf blowers, mulching mowers, and rakes can harm wildlife’s odds of survival.

Northern California’s coasts are turning into underwater deserts

Urchin barrens are the new normal in the once-flourishing ecosystem.