Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are ...

Now to the remote Aleutian Islands in the Bering Sea, off the coast of Alaska. About a decade ago, people living there noticed something was missing. A once-abundant seabird seemed to be vanishing.

The project aims to gather more data on species that are difficult to monitor.

The two of us can often be found in a patch of scrubby bushland, phone in hand, slowly scanning for plants. Or crouched ...

A citizen science study has found participants’ mental wellbeing is positively affected, in a variety of ways.

This year’s celebration highlights how Americans can support federal missions not only through NASA research, but also by ...

The I-20 Wildlife Preserve has a monarch butterfly watch through monarchwatch.org. They recently worked with the Texas Master Naturalists to tag monarch butterflies at the preserve. A team of Master ...

New York launched a new citizen science wildlife monitoring program this week, called Snapshot NY. It’s engaging interested New York residents to participate in a statewide project that will use trail ...

Touchdown, Cornell’s unofficial mascot, is the only red bear in New York. But the state is home to at least 6,000 to 8,000 black bears, spread across all forms of terrain. Tracking all of them proves ...

Decades of citizen science in Alaska helped researchers figure out how one of the biggest wildlife die-offs -- that of the seabird the common murre -- unfolded. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We ...