2+ hour, 9+ min ago   (388+ words) An investment in climate and environmental resilience. Rather than being redeveloped, a retired golf course in Massachusetts is being turned into habitat and public open space. In Northampton, a 105-acre landscape once maintained for golf is starting a new phase…...

4+ hour, 29+ min ago   (338+ words) Six joeys were still alive in their mother's pouch. Over the course of a single week in New York, responders delivered three heartwarming rescues: an injured bald eagle returned to the sky, a trapped fawn was lifted from an abandoned…...

6+ hour, 49+ min ago   (480+ words) "They're not really telling where they're releasing." Colorado's gray wolf reintroduction effort has entered a new phase: state officials say there are now five confirmed packs in the state, and four of them have produced pups this year. For people…...

12+ hour, 9+ min ago   (549+ words) The agency has resources to complete just 38% of the duties it already has. California's state animal, the grizzly bear, vanished from its wild roughly a century ago. Now, lawmakers are weighing whether the Golden State could and should bring the…...

14+ hour, 39+ min ago   (396+ words) "Fingers crossed for full recovery. We will get him there. It takes a village!" In the early hours of last Sunday, Knox County deputies found themselves handling an unusual emergency. After a juvenile barred owl was hit by a car…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (405+ words) They are slow-growing native plants that can take decades to reach full size. Near a Phoenix house, a long-standing saguaro toppled after its base gave way. The nearly 50-year-old cactus hit the ground with enough force to shake the home…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (453+ words) "Non-toxic or not, a bird that can't blend in has a much harder time surviving the flight home." Reports that blue-dyed doves were released around Arizona's Salt River for a gender reveal have sparked outrage and concern among wildlife advocates…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (613+ words) "They perch on certain trees for certain reasons in certain areas." Instead of becoming the site of luxury homes and a marina, one of Big Bear Lake's few untouched shoreline stretches may end up protected. A pair of local nonprofits…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (556+ words) "They continue to exist despite being eventually doomed to extinction." Florida's gopher tortoise, a quiet but vital presence across the Southeast, has received a troubling new designation. The species is now listed as critically endangered, a sign that one of…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (502+ words) "The two species have always been there; what has changed is our knowledge of them." For more than a century, rabbits across the Iberian Peninsula were treated as a single species. However, new research suggests that assumption may have hidden…...