Environment

Land Between the Lakes' lead naturalist, John Pollpeter, speaks with WKMS' Tracy Ross about the appropriate steps to take in animal rescue situations.

Markets for buying and selling credits for the right to emit carbon puts a cap on a state's impact on climate change.

Minnesota-based Geronimo Energy plans to lease about 1,000 acres from several property owners to install solar panels.

Launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, the Great Backyard Bird Count was the first online citizen-science project to collect data on wild birds and to display results in near real-time.

The U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority will test the method in Smith and Pisgah bays on Kentucky Lake through Feb. 20.

The other two coal-fired units at Paradise were retired in 2017 and replaced by a natural gas plant next to the fossil plant.

Lawmakers approved a $50 million dollar bond issue for the campaign during the 2019 General Assembly. Most of Kentucky’s 17 resorts and 45 parks were built about 50 years ago.

Officials began trapping feral hogs in 2014, but they couldn't keep up with the hogs' rapid reproduction rate; they can have two litters a year with five to 10 piglets, which will themselves be ready to breed in less than a year.

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife reports there are 187 active bald eagle nests in the state.

Since 1996, the red wolf has been on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's list of critically endangered species.

Farmers who want to sell electricity to utilities generally lease land to power companies to build the panels.

The protest drew international attention, helped win miners a portion of their back pay, and highlighted the state’s failure to collect bond payments from companies like Blackjewel, as the law requires.