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(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 ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — With recent gold standard accreditation, the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium is poised to lead in saving the endangered red panda and rei...

NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s routine practice for government officials to kill animals deemed invasive or destructive. For the most part, Americans accept th...

MOBILE-TENSAW DELTA, Ala. (AP) — Thousands of American lotuses carpet the water’s surface, faces turned toward the morning sun. Bright yellow warblers...

UNIVERSITY PARK — The discovery of a hybrid population of poplar trees in western Wyoming has provided insight into how natural hybridization informs ...

Scientists who study new species sometimes refer to their field, taxonomy, as the world’s oldest profession. That moniker — which usually refers to pr...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — A subculture of foragers is scouring a growing host of social media groups, hashtags and phone apps to find and identify mushroom...

SPARKS OF MAGIC on summer nights, is how a child might explain the sight of the magical flashing lights of fireflies. It is quite mysterious to the la...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The growing number of gardeners growing pollinator gardens may need to dive a bit deeper than the selection of plants they choose t...

UNIVERSITY PARK — In the middle of April, we’re experiencing one of the (hopefully) last gasps of winter for the season. While nature can still surpri...

JOHNSONBURG — Jim Pennington, president of the Rolfe Beagle Club, announced that local Boy Scouts with Troop #83 and Troop #410 helped the club improv...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Since the 1990s, scientists have been predicting that North American tree species will disappear from portions of their ranges withi...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Crossbreeding between two invasive crayfish species has been found in theJuniata Riverbasin of centralPennsylvania, raising concern...

The beautiful but odoriferous Bradford pear trees along Boylston Street in the City of Bradford are an invasive species, and Pennsylvania is in the pr...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A newly identified mite may be a biological control on the invasive tree-of-heaven, a favorite host tree for spotted lanternflies. ...

Pennsylvania is a state often associated with industry. Steel and glass. Coal and gas. But the Keystone State is just as famous for its nature. The U....

CLIMATE CHANGE FOR EASTERN US: Dr. Marc Abrams, Penn State Professor of Forest Ecology and Tree Physiology, continued to share what he has seen in res...

A recovery plan for the eastern massasauga rattlesnake, which occurs in a small area of northwestern Pennsylvania and in a few other states and a Cana...

While hunting is open nearly year-round for a few species like groundhogs and coyotes, for most Pennsylvania hunters the first seasons of the July 1-J...

HARRISBURG — The Center for Rural Pennsylvania held a virtual public hearing on the negative impact of invasive species in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. Jo...