By Abraham Stone and Dr. Sigrid Resh Soon enough, we will be reminded of the life that has lain dormant while snow blanketed the UP. Trees will begin producing leaves, the trilliums and trout lilies will bloom, and morels will pop out in our backyards (if you’re lucky)! The Keweenaw ...

KISMA press release In the Upper Peninsula, garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is one of the first invasive plants to sprout and produce seeds each spring. While Calumet, Hancock, Houghton and Laurium have the most prominent garlic mustard infestations within KISMA’s tri-county area, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Dozens of scientists from universities and environmental groups are pushing for the removal of the head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, claiming she lacks the educational background required to run the agency despite securing Senate confirmation last ...

“Moving in line then you look back in time to the first day.” – Jeff Lynne I count backwards from one hundred. I stop when I get to my age. The counting takes a good deal less time to complete than it used to. I contemplate that despite adding another tree ring to my own ...

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection has charged itself with damaging habitat for threatened and endangered birds that it was supposed to protect. The work was designed to create habitat for one species of bird, but actually wound up ...

It was a strange scene to be sure. I felt as though I had climbed the staircase to the top of the sky, and I was looking into the ever after, the hereafter or the never after. The sky was white and swirled as it melted into a blank and endless opaque and indeterminate fog. It looked like ...