Atlantic puffins in Maine represent a globally recognized victory in wildlife conservation — and they offer a poignant warning about climate change in New England. Indisputably one of the cutest birds ...

A National Audubon Society project has restored these seabirds to islands off Maine. But could this good work be undone? I MADE MY FIRST VISIT to a seabird colony in the 1960s and found it dazzling ...

Every summer, a handful of interns and research assistants are selected from hundreds of applicants to camp in primitive conditions on a tiny, treeless island several miles off Maine's coast. Their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atlantic Puffins were once almost extinct from Maine’s coast, their only native habitat in the United States. But after the ...

After teaching ornithology at a Maine camp in the summer of 1969, Stephen W. Kress grew obsessed with bringing puffins back to the state. He was young, yes, but was he foolish? He knew it would be ...

It’s a testament to Derrick Z. Jackson’s wide-ranging, renaissance-man career that his substantial talent as a wildlife photographer is only the fourth or fifth most interesting thing about him.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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Adult puffins on an island off Maine's coast. By the late 1800s, Atlantic puffins had almost disappeared from their historical nesting grounds in the Gulf of Maine, killed off by hunters for food and ...

Every summer, a handful of interns and research assistants are selected from hundreds of applicants to camp in primitive conditions on a tiny, treeless island several miles off Maine's coast. Their ...