A recent study has found a dangerous combination of fungus, parasites and other pathogens is posing a threat to the snake population in the Southeast.

Woodland phlox are blooming, robins are nest building, thermometers are fluctuating and spring peepers are singing their chorus in marshy woods, swamps, ponds and ditches. These tiny tree frogs ...

Every April, a different kind of blizzard sweeps across Chicago-area neighborhoods. White blossoms line parkways in Naperville, commercial strips in Schaumburg, and front yards in Arlington Heights.

Armed with live frog bait, this crew sets out to battle one of the most aggressive invaders in freshwater — the snakehead fish. Every cast brings tension as the water erupts in explosive strikes. It’s ...

It began as just another shift in the produce aisle at the Provincetown Stop & Shop — stacking onions, the papery skins whispering under fluorescent light — until something blinked back. Tucked among ...

New Jersey is banning more than two dozen invasive trees and plants, including the Bradford pear, which residents say emits a strange odor when it blooms every spring. The Invasive Species Management ...

Bradford pear trees are the real Jersey devil. Spring has sprung and the Garden State’s very pretty, but oh-so-stinky, Bradford pears are blossoming — and perfuming neighborhoods with their noxious ...

Many Southwest Florida island paradises such as Captiva off Lee County’s coast are pushing back against the same things to keep "paradise" in their descriptions — too many rental homes, too much ...

It’s that time of year again, when Bradford pear trees spread a fishy, chlorine‑like smell across New Jersey neighborhoods. Under a new law, the Bradford pear tree and 29 other nonnative plants that ...

A spring peeper at Corey Marsh last fall. Spring nights come alive at a Laingsburg nature center as temperatures warm. That means frogs are waking up, and their chirps and croaks are reverberating ...

The annual "buyback" program spearheaded by the Missouri Invasive Plant Council offers residents a free native tree in exchange for removing invasive Callery pear. It's part of a larger effort to ...