ANN ARBOR, MI — Late March is the perfect time to shake off the winter blues and embrace the outdoors. Mother Nature’s early spring spectacles signal it is time to grab some hiking boots, binoculars, ...

Banding birds provides data that helps us understand the movements of birds. Bird banding demonstrations happen at ACNC Saturday mornings in the spring. Photo by Jennifer Schlick If the groundhog sees ...

Editor's note: This following edition of Nature News is a 2017 column, with 2024 updates, including a reference to our most recent snow storm. An internet outage prevented Susan Pike from writing a ...

Winter is a monster with icy claws, wrapping itself around the roof of the earth for months at a time. Winter’s icy breath chills the bones and chases animals and retirees to the south to escape.

Spring bird migration is in full swing during the first weekend in May, and there are plenty of experiences around Indiana to enjoy the avian migrants. There are also volunteer opportunities, guided ...

Nature is transitioning, the light has shifted, the small birds are back, the days have a little more warmth in them, physically and mentally we are noticing this transition. The natural cycle is ...

In most cases, MassWildlife says you should leave any baby animals you see in the wild alone. In most cases, even if a young animal seems helpless and abandoned, they are not. MassWildlife says in the ...

Malaka Gharib is the digital editor of the NPR podcast Life Kit. Previously, she was the deputy editor and digital strategist on NPR's global health and development team, where she covered topics such ...

GREENFIELD – Greenfield residents don’t have to go further than their own back yard to enjoy the great outdoors, and the city’s parks department is ramping up nature programs this spring and summer to ...

After a bleak winter and the rain of the past week, spring is finally in bloom at Dartmouth. Bright smiles and sunshine light up every corner of campus. But with all the excitement of warmth, it is ...