Environment

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.

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.

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. 

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.

Recent data indicates that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been at record high levels the past two years.

Fireflies are often reminiscent of childhood summers — but there's so much more to the insect than meets the eye.

Seeing this native species that breeds throughout Kentucky may require some patience since this bird moves rather slowly in the treetops.