botany

This summer, volunteers trained at Moraine State Park to collect samples of potential algae blooms and assess erosion in streams in Allegheny County p...

CARNEGIE — Mother Nature might be saying it’s winter, but the American Cancer Society is helping you to think spring with the return of Daffodil Days!...

KNAPP CREEK, N.Y. — A state Department of Transportation crew on Tuesday was clearing trees to improve the view from the scenic overlook on Rock City ...

Thursday evening’s power outage in Bradford came with a brief but huge and bright flash caught on video by a motorist in Bradford Township. Chris Weik...

AUSTIN — Start the new year on the right foot with an easy 2.5-mile guided hike on level trails at Sinnemahoning State Park. From 10 a.m. to noon Mond...

This summer, volunteers trained at Moraine State Park to collect samples of potential algae blooms and assess erosion in streams in Allegheny County p...

I’m sitting at my daughter’s place in Rhode Island staring outside in some alarm. Huge oak tree tops are tossing wildly, blowing 20 to 30 feet back an...

UNIVERSITY PARK — As days shorten and temperatures drop in the temperate zones around the world, many woody plants begin physiological changes to cons...

Julie Barrett’s phone rang on Friday, Dec. 15, but it seemed there was no one on the other end of the line. Julie figured her husband, Jason, hunting ...

FACTS: Did you know that Christmas celebrations in the Middle Ages were rowdy and raucous, sort of like Mardi Gras? We checked history.com for some fa...

Snowmobile season is open, many of the trails, however, are not. And, it will be tough to find a place to snowshoe or use those new cross-country skis...

PITTSBURGH — Whether a flock of the much-coveted evening grosbeaks or eastern bluebirds shows up at a feeder in Pine Township or in Murrysville, it’s ...

Shoppers in Foster Township Wednesday morning might have thought the blinking lights in stores had something to do with the holiday. Alas, that was no...

Whether a flock of the much-coveted evening grosbeaks or eastern bluebirds shows up at a feeder in Pine Township or in Murrysville, it’s all about get...

NEW YORK (TNS) — If there’s one climate-change solution everybody seems to agree on, it’s that trees are good. Even Donald Trump, who has called clima...

SMETHPORT — Pennsylvania Wilds-based artist Julie Mader has partnered with the PA Wilds Center for Entrepreneurship to release Paint the PA Wilds Wate...

It was time to slip on my pack, adjust my head lamp, grab the rifle. The hill rose steeply before me as the cold air nipped shrewdly at my face and ea...

There I was, standing in my daughter’s living room holding on to the top of her live Christmas tree praying that it would stand up straight once she g...

NEW YORK (TNS) — If there’s one climate-change solution everybody seems to agree on, it’s that trees are good. Even Donald Trump, who has called clima...

A power surge Sunday morning in Foster Township blew out appliances, furnaces and more at homes in the area, losses that need to be reported to Penele...