From Arizona's canyons to Utah's buttes and beyond, our national parks columnist shares the most adventurous Southwest ...

A tiny bird appears seemingly out of nowhere at the water’s edge, little orange feet carrying it quickly along the packed ...

Fewer than 2,500 Western snowy plovers remain along the entire West Coast of the United States, and Alameda is lucky enough to host several of the threatened birds. Sharol Nelson-Embry introduces the ...

When it comes to dredging area waterways and nourishing beaches, timing is everything. And with warmer weather coming earlier ...

California's coastal protection agency planned to close the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area to off-roaders. A ...

The central Wisconsin farm was part of the inspiration for a 60 second Lay's potato chip commercial that aired in the third ...

The Black-Legged Plover is an endangered bird that will soon be nesting in Denia and special protective nets are being placed ...

Last week while leading a photo workshop in warm and sunny Florida, I was walking down a long stretch of beach with my group of photographers in tow. The sun had just come up spreading a warm ...

An uproar began a few weeks ago in Barnegat Light, after work crews cleared 3 acres of beach and dune vegetation to the north ...

Lund described piping plovers as sand-coloured shorebirds — coloured that way to perfectly blend in with their beach habitat. They can be very hard to see because they’re so camouflaged ...

Sixteen piping plover chicks survived in 2024 in the Kouchibouguac National Park on the east coast of New Brunswick. This is the highest number seen in seven years.