Leave it to NASA to bring our dreams of cruising to work in a flying suit closer to reality. The one-man electric Puffin plane is 10 times quieter than hushed helicopters, takes off vertically, and ...

Armed with enthusiasm, researchers and volunteers have joined forces to safeguard the flamboyant seabirds as climate change ...

Atlantic Puffins were once almost extinct from Maine’s coast, their only native habitat in the United States. But after the success of Project Puffin, which worked to restore puffins to Eastern Egg ...

Be honest. Who hasn’t dreamed about flying in their own personal aircraft? NASA aerospace engineer Mark Moore moved his dreams one step closer to reality by devising this concept – the Puffin personal ...

Puffins at Maine Coastal Island National Wildlife Refuge. Atlantic puffins have been having trouble successfully raising their chicks in warmer water. Photo courtesy USFWS/Flickr The new poster child ...

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 ...

Straddling the United States and Canada, the small and wondrous Machias Seal Island entices visitors with the clamorous calls of thousands of seabirds gathered together in harmony. A visit to the ...

A bird scratching an itch might not sound like big scientific news, but when that bird makes use of a tool to get the job done, that suddenly puts the animal in rare territory. And that’s where the ...

Right now, groups of Icelanders are taking to the streets late at night, armed with cardboard boxes and torches, in search of the telltale white bellies of baby Atlantic puffins. Once caught, these ...