The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our community in a variety of ways, including 4-H, farm advisers, and ...

When the sun disappears, and the world slowly becomes quiet, another world quietly wakes up. While humans switch off lights ...

In Daniel Chong’s cheerfully ludicrous science-fiction comedy, robot technology enables an environmental activist to walk and ...

Bee-eater birds are stunningly colorful, but their diet of bees and other insects puts them at odds with humans.

The consensus amongst nature lovers is that there are no good or bad creatures just life forms trying to survive in the way they have evolved to do. That is almost certainly the right scientific ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — It’s a cold, foggy February morning, and Bev LaBelle is on the hunt for hummingbirds. Walking along a trail in Southeast Portland’s Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge, she pauses as a ...

The invasive Hessian fly spurred suspicions of biological warfare, threatened the new nation’s economy and inspired the nation’s first citizen science project.

A brain-invading worm spread by rats and snails is making inroads into the United States. A study this week seems to show the ...

Mosquitoes may have started targeting humans millions of years ago, possibly during the spread of Homo erectus in Southeast Asia.

The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

Imagine moving into a new home only to discover it is infested with thousands of venomous spiders. In 2007, Missouri ...