Birds

What progress we achieve when every day is Earth Day

Fasten your seat belts! This is an extravaganza of hopeful headlines and eco-solutions news worth celebrating from around the world.

Apr 22 • Amanda Royal

Hopeful headlines: Rhinos, bison, frogs, and sexy barges

Stories of environmental progress from around the world

Mar 20 • Amanda Royal

Hopeful headlines: When life thrives in sacred places

Stories of conservation, rewilding, and volunteerism from around the world.

Jan 27 • Amanda Royal

400,000 seabirds are hooking up near San Francisco

The common murre's population once plummeted to 6,000 at the Farallon Islands after eggs were gathered by the millions to feed California's Gold Rush…

Jan 21 • Amanda Royal

I walk the path of the lioness

In which a cougar's mating call at the edge of town makes my imagination run wild.

Jan 16 • Amanda Royal

Hopeful headlines: Snowy owl baby boom and progress for rhinos, cranes, prairies, and salmon

Stories of volunteerism, innovation, restoration, and litigation working to bring nature back.

Dec 21, 2025 • Amanda Royal

We cracked the rage algorithm

We can elevate hope, beauty, grace, and love without sacrificing concern. Plus, HOPEFUL HEADLINES about salamanders, good fire, sea turtles, oil rigs…

Dec 2, 2025 • Amanda Royal

"I'll never be a birder"

Working to free a trapped owl after a summer of misadventure long ago in Alaska.

Oct 31, 2025 • Amanda Royal

Islands transformed: Thousands of seabirds nest on newly rat-free atolls

Plus, hopeful headlines on sea stars, Suriname's forest, Poland's bird-hunting ban, Portland's beavers, and Jane Goodall. And, celebrating harvests and…

Oct 7, 2025 • Amanda Royal

Piping plover pairs hit records from Maine to Great Lakes

We interview Bob Dolgan, documentarian of Chicago's famous plover pair Monty and Rose, about what's making this little beach bird's rebound possible.

Sep 3, 2025 • Amanda Royal

Tahoe's sandhill cranes show wetland restoration is working

The region spent $3 billion in four decades on its environment. Sandhill cranes returned after a 100-year absence.

Aug 27, 2025 • Amanda Royal

This is how you save a river: A lawsuit, a streamkeeper and 80 tons of gravel

A college community decided a dried creek filled with wrecked cars should instead be home to salmon, trout, beavers, eagles and bears.

Jun 18, 2025 • Amanda Royal

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