Along California’s wave-battered edge, a small marine mammal with disarming eyes is quietly rewriting the rules of ecological restoration. Once hunted to the brink, sea otters are returning to coves and eelgrass beds, and line is responding like a long-silent instrument finding its tune. Kelp fronds rise where spiny urchin barrens once sprawled, and shorebirds ...
For decades, Rhode Island’s rocky shores were winter sanctuaries for harbor seals, their sleek bodies gliding through icy waters and basking on sunlit stones. But now, these whiskered marine mammals are arriving earlier, staying longer, and showing up in record numbers. What’s fueling this surge? Marine biologists point to a curious mix of success and ...
I still remember the first time a puffin skimmed past my kayak, orange feet flashing like traffic cones in a storm. Not long ago, these birds felt like a memory in parts of Maine, their burrows quiet and their food uncertain. Now, signs of a come ripple across the Gulf of Maine, cautious but unmistakable. ...
Picture this: under the moonlit skies of a warm Florida night, an ancient ritual unfolds on sandy beaches that has been happening for millions of years. Florida’s coastline provides critical nesting habitat for loggerhead, green, and leatherback sea turtles that use the state’s beaches to lay nests each year. What many people don’t realize is ...
