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Due to an unusually warm and late start to the fall season most of the trees in the Rockford area still have their leaves so the annual tradition of raking up your leaves hasn't started yet.

It’s a tale of two sites for discovery. Since 2018, in Kimmel Orchard outside of Nebraska City, Neb., beehives have flourished in a meadow surrounded by apple, cherry and pear trees. At the Eastern Nebraska…

Our summer intern for 2021 is Jacob Shuman. He is a resident of Ross County and graduated from The Ohio State University with his bachelor of science degre

Ruling? >> i think its a seriously flawed ruling, fredericka. to compare an ar-15 to a swiss army knife runs counter to what any ordinary person would believe. the ruling was also shocking coming on gun violence awareness day, where literally thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people, are thinking about how their lives and their families were adversely and very negatively impacted by gun violence. i expect this to be reversed on appeal, and i think this only strengthens the resolve of fo...

Unpacking the Backlash Against the TikTok Bee Lady Mia Mercado © Getty Images/Texas Beeworks/TikTok Getty Images/Texas Beeworks/TikTok Oh, honey, we’ve got bee drama. Popular TikTok account Texas Beeworks is facing backlash for its bee-removal and beekeeping videos. Texas Beeworks’ Erika Thompson (a.k.a. the TikTok Bee Lady) is best known for videos that show her gently scooping up dozens of bees with her bare hands. They’re usually accompanied by a soft-spoken voice-ov...

In an effort to maintain and fund the Patuxent Research Center’s quality of wildlife research, the U.S. Geological Survey merged it a year ago with two of its other science centers and recently announced its new name: the U.S.G.S. Eastern Ecological Science Center at Patuxent Research Refuge in Laurel.

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Rusty patched bumble bee is Minnesotas state bee 2:00 pm, May 7, 2021 × Robin Trott It’s been two years since the rusty patched bumble bee became the state bee of Minnesota, a designation due in no small part to Elaine Evans, University of Minnesota Extension educator and Bee Lab researcher. Because the rusty patched bumble bee is so uncommon, researchers haven’t been able to observe nesting behaviors for more than 25 years. That data is vital for conservation efforts. Her outrea...

MEAD, Neb. (DTN) — The owners of a small ethanol plant in Mead, Nebraska, that has become an environmental disaster are looking to sell off their adjoining 30,000-head cattle feedyard as the ethanol plant faces state litigation and angry residents. AltEn LLC, a 24-million-gallon ethanol plant, remains idle and is facing a lawsuit from the state of Nebraska over millions of gallons of toxic water that spilled on Feb. 12-13, 2021, and 84,000 tons of distillers grains from treated corn seed pile...

How Wendell King Found His Frequency in Erie African American radio engineer met and obliterated the color line by Jonathan Burdick Union College It was June of 1917 and the United States was at war. The first American infantry troops had arrived in Europe that month and stateside manufacturers were working around the clock to keep up with wartime demand. In Schenectady, N.Y., the sprawling General Electric plant, which...