Browsing: Environment

Making time for a nature break – a good habit

Keep a nectar feeder up for our Winter Hummingbirds

Our fall colors shine.

A surprise under every flower pot.

Find your seasonings in your backyard

Sharing my Beautyberries with the birds.

The allure of the Pascagoula River and its tributaries that fascinated him as a boy are now the subjects for an environmental impact photography project that will highlight how smaller tributaries contribute to the last free-flowing river in the United States.

Queen Butterflies are as beautiful as Monarchs

With the support of the Bacot-McCarty Foundation, Chevron Refinery and the Imperial Palace Casino, among many others, the Center is hosting the “Birds of a Feather” fundraiser to invite current and potential supporters to visit and learn more about new and existing programs. The event will take place along the bayou on Thursday, Oct. 24, from 6 to 9 p.m.

Groundsel Bush adds a splash of white to our world.

Nature has a language of its own, often expressed in colors or structures that send signals to the rest of the world. So it is with spines on caterpillars, like those on the beautiful Io moth.

Field trips are not just for children in traditional school settings, especially when the outing has so much educational value.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected the Gulf – Caribbean Oceanographic Consortium, cooperatively led by The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), to operate the third new oceanographic research ship to carry out regional scale research in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.

From live to dry and back again, Resurrection Fern is a survivor.

Rhodes Bayou will be humming on Sept. 13 as the site of the first-ever Hummingbird Happy Hour hosted by the Pascagoula River Audubon Center.

Owls are quite beautiful. Many sport brown, red, gray and white feathers in an array of patterns. Snowy owls are completely white, but they are not a common site south of Canada. Seeing a white owl in our part of the world is, therefore, a reason to take a second look.