Researchers study black skimmer poop to see how environmental change affects their survival. Since 2018, Audubon North Carolina’s Lindsay Addison and volunteers have banded black skimmers along the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Shari Edelson, Penn State and B. Derrick Taff, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) If you’re ...

Shari Edelson has received research funding from the National Park Service, the National Science Foundation and PACT Outdoors. B. Derrick Taff is an Assistant Dean of Research and Graduate Education ...

If you’re one of the 63 million Americans who went hiking last year, chances are you’ve found yourself needing to go, with no toilet in sight. Aside from personal inconvenience, why is this such a big ...