Environment

Kentucky poet laureate Silas House rejected proponents' argument that the bill would allow industry to pollute only ephemeral streams, or waterways that don’t have running water year round. 
Silas House speaking at podium near lake
Infected birds spread the viral infection through feces, saliva and mucus.
duck
The trail at Jeffers Bend follows the path of the North Fork of Little River.
jeffers-walk couple
This time of year just seems to be skunk season, and their pungent smell reminds us that love is in the air, and the skunks are out and about trying to make more skunks.
Striped skunk
The vision for a prairie to be preserved in Logan County didn’t materialize. It shares the fate of millions of acres of prairie across the country.
Logan co. prairie
Christmas trees can be donated through Jan. 15 to help improve underwater habitat for fish.
The U.S. Drought Monitor, a group of governmental weather experts tracking drought, has much of Kentucky in either moderate or severe drought conditions. 
fire in park
Guests will find activities and booths related to wildlife, the botanical garden, bees, the butterfly garden, birding, storytelling, rain gardening, a petting zoo, pumpkin painting, canoe rides, corn hole, disc golf, face painting and hayrides.
The meteor shower is expected to peak on the night of Aug. 11 through the morning of Aug. 12.
With the new “Twisters” movie hitting theaters, here are details of what scientists do in this kind of fieldwork when they race after storms.
The office was represented among several witnesses at the legislature’s Interim Joint Natural Resources and Energy Committee, which was discussing the implications of new federal rules requiring coal-fired power plants.
Cicadas are the song of the summer, but this year’s large broods may be especially irritating for people on the autism spectrum who have hearing sensitivity.
cicada on hand