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Rudy offers some advice on making a friendly place in your yard for polinators and birds.

Lonicera fragrantissima is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family known by the common names winter honeysuckle, fragrant honeysuckle,

Why do dead beech leaves tend to cling to trees long after other trees are bare?

Jenny Dixon

NATURE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: Greening ideas for the Swampscott school-building design team Toni Bandrowicz Opportunity seldom knocks twice.  As the town of Swampscott embarks upon the siting of a new elementary school, I can hear it knocking.  Here, at the planning stage, the town has the opportunity to ensure that the new school is environmentally sustainable, protects neighboring natural areas, and provides ample open space for play and learning.  It will be much harder and more expensive t...

Who owns our streets? Our neighbourhoods? Who has the right to make changes? Before I start I should point out that, while I agree with the writer, the words at the end of this post are not my words but those of London Parklet Campaign on Twitter, whose Twitter thread, posted this week, Im reproducing below. The thread certainly struck a chord with some of us whose own extremely modest efforts to green the streets, at no cost to the council, were met with an immovable barrier of council intrans...

The Carolina anole is a small to medium-sized lizard, with a slender body. The head is long and pointed with ridges between the eyes and nostrils, and

Hericium erinaceus (also called lion's mane mushroom, monkey head mushroom, bearded tooth mushroom, satyr's beard, bearded hedgehog mushroom, pom pom

Rudy discusses the unusual early life cycle of the great leopard moth.

Join the Rockport Public Library, Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 6 p.m., for a one-hour presentation on the graceful white-tailed deer. “While we see these lovely creatures in our yards or neighboring forests and fields, most of us know little about them,”...