Environment

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
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.
fireflies
Seeing this native species that breeds throughout Kentucky may require some patience since this bird moves rather slowly in the treetops.
Male summer tanager
The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects “a record addition” of new utility-scale solar power this year.
solar panels
Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities want to condemn land in the wildlife corridor that state funding helped buy.
Bernheim Forest
Kentucky is finalizing a ban on hunting feral swine in hopes of slowing their advance.
wild pigs USDA
The periodical cicadas of Brood XIX began emerging in Hopkinsville over the weekend.
Last year, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group ranked the Ohio River as the second most endangered river in the country.
Ohio River