Environment

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife has dropped a recommendation that residents of six counties in Central Kentucky stop using bird feeders.
sick birds Ky feature.jpg
Participants can have dinner outdoors in an area of Land Between the Lakes that is a popular spot for hummingbirds.
ruby throated hummingbird feature
Climate scientist Robert Kopp, a lead author of a recent report on Earth’s oceans, ice and sea level rise, discusses the profound changes underway.
pexels-guillaume-falco-global-warming-climate-change_featured
An analysis of 90 studies measured the impact of environmental stressors such as pesticides and poor nutrition.
bees feature
Laura Sullivan-Beckers, who first discovered the new treehopper species in her backyard garden bed in Murray, is using the crowdsourcing website iNaturalist.org to determine how widely dispersed the insect is.
hebetica sylviae
Kentucky’s bear population is typically limited to Eastern Kentucky, but younger bears sometimes wander west in the early summer.
black bear feature
A local official who has fought the invasive species for years is touting the initial data as a potential “game-changer.”
Asian carp
Weather conditions can play a role in determining when cicadas take to the trees.
cicada_featured
The affected birds have swollen eyes with a crusty discharge. Some also have neurological problems and might appear to be stumbling around.
Bluejay birds dying feature
The meal includes grilled pork chops and dessert.
Jeffers Bend logo feature
A Calloway County farmer sees part of the solution to greenhouse gas emissions in his own soil, where he says, "I'm letting Mother Nature work here."
cattle grazing feature
Winter creeper starts out climbing trees as a small innocuous vine much like ivy will do. But it grows and climbs, quickly forming thick rope-like vines that deprive a tree of nutrients and sunlight.
winter creeper closeup feature