The treatment was required — death was all but certain without it — but the needle required to apply it was almost ...

Overhead, turkey vultures and hawks circle looking for prey. Underfoot, snakes, salamanders and turtle hatchlings do their ...

We have received just over 2 inches of rain since Aug. 1. In fact, I looked back in my weather records, and the last time I ...

The Harrisville Conservation Commission will host a seminar on biocontrols for the hemlock wooly adelgid, an invasive insect, featuring Dr. Richard McDonald of Symbiont Biological Pest Management ...

Sep. 24, 2024 — The Eiffinger's tree frog found in Japan has a unique biological adaptation: its tadpoles do not defecate during their early developmental stages to reduce the risk of ...

The fungus has decimated chestnut trees in the national park, and larger trees have been slow to replace them.

The eastern hemlock in the Greendale Cemetery ravine that played the role of patient wasn’t receiving a vaccination prior to flu season. Instead, the earth around the base of the tree was being ...

A century ago, the forests of the Eastern U.S. looked very different. They were packed with towering chestnut trees. But since then, those trees have largely disappeared, and the forests have ...

Chestnut trees began disappearing from eastern deciduous forests in the U.S. almost a century ago due to a nasty fungus. That has contributed to a vastly different eastern forest landscape today.