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WILDLIFE: It’s the time of year to be outside more often — when it isn’t raining. The Pennsylvania Game Commission has a list of things everyone can d...

I always look for my forsythia bush to be some of the first flowers of spring. Blooming during Eastertide caused the shrub to be known as the Easter T...

KANE — Volunteers from Pennsylvania and southern New York worked together Saturday to transplant small mountain ash trees into cribs on lands near Cle...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — As spring begins in Pennsylvania, it means that migration will bring hummingbirds to the region. “Ruby-throats arrive in Pennsylvan...

GAMES: Now that better weather is supposed to be upon us, we’ll want to be spending more time outside. We found a neat way to keep children and adults...

Today is Earth Day. Interested in planting a garden or supporting pollinators this year? Two local libraries have just what you need to get started. W...

The long-range weather forecast gives us hope that May will be the spring weather for which we have all been waiting. Our spring bulbs are blooming, t...

MARCH: March is filled with symbols that remind us of renewals. “The cheerful bloom, the daffodil, symbolizes new beginnings and hope, while the aquam...

EAST STROUDSBURG — Students from East Stroudsburg University's Biology Graduate Program, including Tianna Johnson of Kane, are proving that science an...

I have always been curious about plants called the Christmas rose and another called the Lenten rose. They are herbaceous (die back to the soil and re...

UNIVERSITY PARK — The corn earworm causes the loss of more than 76,000 bushels of corn in the United States annually, and there is mounting evidence t...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State Extension is offering a new, online, self-paced course to teach pesticide applicators about the latest updates in agronom...

LURKING: Just what is lurking in the maze of sewer lines running underground? In Florida, a team of researchers from the University of Florida found “...

(TNS)— Good news for nature! A species that was once declared extinct is making a comeback. ABC Mildura-Swan Hill News reports how the olive perchlet ...

SMETHPORT — Join the McKean County Conservation District, during National Invasive Species Awareness Week from Feb. 24 to 28, in taking some basic car...

Native plants are those plants that occur naturally in our environment. Wildlife as well as people need these native plants to create a healthy enviro...

PANDAS: They’re back! Well, not the same ones, but Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C., has giant pandas...

Avian influenza is suspected to have caused the deaths of about 200 snow geese found Monday in the greater Allentown area. Dead birds were recovered f...

One of the most beloved species of nature lovers in the Twin Tiers — the monarch butterfly — has received support from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Is the floating freshwater fern commonly called Carolina azolla the potential answer to global food insecurity or a possible threat ...