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Plastic is everywhere. According to the United Nations, enough plastic waste to fill 2,000 garbage trucks is dumped into waterways such as oceans, rivers, and lakes each day. There’s plastic litter at the bottom of the ocean and on top…
More than a trillion cicadas are coming to the United States. Two broods of the red-eyed flying insects are emerging from the ground this month. People in the Midwest and Southeast should expect a season of high-pitched buzzing. Brood XIX…
On February 23, pelicans take over a shoreline in Mexico. The birds migrate to the state of Michoacán from the United States and Canada each winter. Tourists al…
In December, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) turned 50. It has rescued hundreds of animals and plants from going extinct. The ESA passed in 1973. It directed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service to…
How do you sleep? Maybe you cuddle up with a favorite blanket. You probably go to sleep in the evening and wake up hours later, when it’s morning. That’s how most people sleep. Animals sleep, too. But not all…
A kingfisher endures dry winter weather near Kashmir, India, on January 14. The region is having a tough winter, with an unusual lack of snow.
A Sumatran rhino was born on November 25 at Way Kambas National Park, in Indonesia. This species of rhino is critically endangered, with fewer than 50 animals l…
Want to see a panda up close? Time is running out. By early next year, there won’t be any of the bears left in zoos in the United States. They’re being sent back to China. For more than 50 years,…
Atlantic puffins have made a comeback in Maine. For the second year in a row, more of these seabirds have been able to raise chicks there. Some 3,000 puffins are living on rocky islands off Maine’s coast. According to…
Corgis (and their owners) promenaded past Buckingham Palace, in London, England, on September 3. The event was held in memory of the late Queen Elizabeth II, wh…
