I’ve given up on winter. It seems that nature around me has, too. This past rainy weekend, I ventured into a nearby marsh, wading through knee-high mud under cold, glowering skies that hinted of ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Most people know them as smelly creature, but they are beneficial for the environment. In Northwest Ohio, orphaned skunks are becoming more common. Nature’s Nursery works to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 11—The early spring is progressing, a bit slow at times with the return of chilly days, but it is happening. In sunlit sites ...

Roadkill high season has started. While animals are certainly found dead on the roads all year long, the slaughter seems to step up the pace in the spring, when wild animals that have been a bit more ...

ARKANSAS, USA — Skunk mating season is in full swing, and Arkansas Game and Fish (AGFC) said that means increased sightings are likely across the Natural State. According to Blake Sasse with AGFC, ...

Thanksgiving Day was cold and rainy but the rain was welcomed. It, along with a few inches from the previous week, had fields of alfalfa and winter wheat looking greener than they did all fall. But ...

In a final message, Jane Goodall urged us not to lose hope, even “as we destroy one ecosystem after another, as we create worse climate change and worse loss of biodiversity.” She believed our actions ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A study in Oregon's Cascade Range of a tiny, elusive skunk found the animal can cover more ground than deer and is sensitive to climate change, particularly severe winter ...

In recent decades, research on spotted skunks (genus Spilogale) has advanced our understanding of their ecological dynamics and informed conservation strategies. These diminutive mephitids occupy a ...

The gorgeous yellow-green leaves of the skunk cabbage are much easier to notice than the dark red flowers, which I have indicated with the blue arrow. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON March Madness is ...

The Howell Nature Center has welcomed two new lifelong residents: a pair of skunks named Flower and Bluebell. The skunks came from a now-shuttered captive breeding program that bred skunks as pets, a ...

I yearn to believe, to have deep faith that even as Florida’s population crests 23 million people, there still might be ...