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Earth Day is celebrated on April 22 after getting its start here in the United States 52 years ago. Now over 190 countries celebrate it. Earth Day does bring needed attention to the environmental issu...

The river otter belongs to the weasel family (mustelids). It is related to the sea otter, mink, wolverine and weasels. It may surprise you to know that they live in much of the Times News region, and ...

The marshes and field edges will soon be bustling with red-winged blackbird activity. In fact, on a March 1 birding road trip around the Beltzville Park area I saw many males already setting up their ...

In the year 1972, DDT is banned in the U.S. It took a little time, but as DDT gradually disappeared from the aquatic environment the populations of bald eagles, osprey, peregrine falcons, and brown pe...

A Lehigh County birding friend notified me of a fairly local snowy owl sighting A week later, after confirming that it was still there and its exact location, a predawn drive last Saturday found us on...

The white-tailed deer is our state mammal, the third largest mammal here, and the most hunted animal in the state. When we recall our knowledge of deer, we know that now is the peak of the breeding se...