This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The white plastic bags fluttering in the ... hung from the nests of a certain bird, the black kite.

This story appears in the July 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Scientists are betting on a new system to alert us to impending earthquakes: birds wearing tiny backpacks. A global ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National ... those birds seem like the proverbial canaries in a coal mine. The photographer freed this stork from a plastic bag at a landfill ...