An Atlantic puffin returns to a numbered burrow on Maine’s Eastern Egg Rock, a research site for Project Puffin. Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press I MADE MY FIRST VISIT to a seabird colony in the ...

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 ...

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.

ST GEORGE, Maine — Maine has a puffin population thanks to one determined researcher who hatched a plan more than 50 years ago. His idea was to take newly hatched puffins—also known as pufflings—from ...

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 ...

Where would Maine be without moose, loons or puffins? Icons of our wild woods, lakes and ocean, they support a massive industry of kitsch, like the chocolate moose, the Welcome to the Looney Bin ...

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 ...

Rising temperatures and more extreme weather are putting large swaths of the Earth's population at risk, with the latest U.N. Climate Report declaring that more than 1 million species of plants and ...

Project Puffin tactics are already deployed against these new threats. For example, the Bermuda petrel lives on a group of tiny, low-lying atolls off the Bermuda coast, where it is vulnerable to mere ...

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 ...