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Beat the COVID-19 Blues With These Wildlife and Nature Livecams
We’ve picked some great webcams around the globe to help keep you sane in these trying times.
Newly Discovered Wonderchicken Is the Oldest Known Ancestor of Chickens and Ducks
Scientists have discovered the oldest known modern bird fossil, dating back to one million years before the asteroid strike that drove the dinosaurs to extinction.
Sowing Uncertainty: What We Do and Don’t Know about the Planting of Pesticide-Treated Seed
The lack of data on pesticide-coated seed compromises our ability to make informed decisions about pesticide risk.
How to Make Hummingbird Nectar
In a few easy steps, you can bring these nectar-loving birds to your feeder.
Five Ways to Support Queen Bumble Bees this Spring
This is a critical time of year: Emerging from hibernation, the queen needs sufficient food for herself and her first batch of developing offspring.
See thousands of swans Saturday near Farmington, Brigham City and Corinne
Humans aren’t the only species that need a pit stop during a road trip.
Keeping cats indoors could blunt adverse effects to wildlife
A new study shows that hunting by house cats can have big effects on local animal populations because they kill more prey, in a given area, than similar-sized wild predators.
Monarchs on coast still face population crash
The recent counts of overwintering monarch butterflies on California’s coast, including at long-surveyed sites in Bolinas, Stinson Beach and Muir Beach, show that the western population of the species did not rebound from a crash last winter.
How to Make a Lasagna Garden
Lasagna gardening is a no-dig, no-till organic gardening method that results in rich, fluffy soil with very little work from the gardener.
South County Girl Scouts Earn Esteemed Gold Award
Five Local Gold Award Girl Scouts Develop Programs that are Making a Lasting Difference in the Community