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This Is What Climate Solutions Look Like
We dedicated our entire fall issue to tackling the challenge of climate change, because humanity has no other choice.
How State and Local Governments Are Leading the Way on Climate Policy
With the federal government failing to act, many states and cities are taking it upon themselves to cut emissions and increase resiliency.
A Better Way to Decrease Disastrous Flooding on the Mississippi River
Our attempts to wall in a surging Mississippi have failed up and down the river, leading to catastrophic flooding. Now momentum is building to work with nature, not against it.
Meet 8 Trailblazers Who Are Changing the Climate Conversation
These leaders come from the grassroots and positions of power, from the left and the right, from arts and science, but they share one thing in common: the urgency of this moment.
A Field Guide to the Future of North American Birds
Audubon’s new climate report warns of massive avian loss if we don’t change course and stabilize global carbon emissions.
Reimagining 200 of Audubon’s Birds
Artist Jenny Kendler creates a birds’ eye view of climate change. In her artwork, it’s us they’re watching.
An Overheating Gulf of Maine Is Forcing Wildlife to Adapt—or Move
Rapid warming in the Gulf of Maine is shifting the marine food web, putting already endangered Roseate Terns and their broods at even greater risk. Figuring out how to help these seabirds could point the way for safeguarding other species.
Bird Jobs of the Future and Other Avian-Inspired Stories From the Year 2100
In Audubon’s first foray into climate fiction, or cli-fi, we asked writers of compelling—and sometimes strange—fiction to imagine what climate chaos will bring for birds and people. From there, they created these tales of the somewhat familiar future.