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June 26, 2015 — Five years after the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, the author of The Tarball Chronicles grabs his binoculars and returns to the scene of the slime.

June 26, 2015 — A parrot rehabber defies the law to set her birds free.

June 26, 2015 — The biggest garbage dump on the planet once contained 150 million tons of reeking trash. No more.

June 26, 2015 — The Brown Pelican became the symbol of the BP oil spill, but the White Pelican is offering clues to its lasting stain on bird populations.

June 26, 2015 — It’s time for Congress to fully fund and permanently authorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

June 26, 2015 — For 78 years, the Edna Lawrence Nature Lab at the Rhode Island School of Design has given art students a place to inspect—and draw inspiration from—the natural world.

June 26, 2015 — Artist Harry Campbell challenges himself with a new subject.

June 26, 2015 — The MBTA is updated to address modern threats to birds.

June 26, 2015 — The Obama administration steps aside in the Arctic, and commits all of us to the ultimate sucker’s bet.

June 26, 2015 — At the world’s remotest nesting colony, the Crazy Ant Strike Team beats back its seabird-killing enemy with spray guns, poison... and cat food.