Restored peat wetlands at the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina have sequestered about 200,000 metric tons of carbon annually, equivalent to the yearly emissions of 42,000 vehicles, according to…
A study in the journal Science reports that Arctic foxes introduced to more than 400 Alaskan islands for fur have transformed grasslands into maritime tundra by disrupting nutrient flow from seabird guano.…
In 1964, Elizabeth Hird and her husband Basil Rauch bought Outer Island, a five-acre summer retreat in Connecticut's Thimble Islands. After Rauch's death, Hird donated the island in 1995 to the US…
