Are we ready for summer? We’ve had roller coaster spring weather, which is typical for this part of California. Also typical ...

For many people,“plastic pollution” calls to mind pictures of turtles and other marine life drowning in single-use plastic ...

As I’m sitting at my kitchen table writing this column, I look out the back deck door and notice the neighbor’s horses moseying through the pasture eating their grass breakfast ...

Darla Tyler-McSherry of Ask In Earnest says anxiety is common in all Americans, as well as in the farming and ranching ...

A WARNING has been issued to gardeners to look out for blackbirds this summer. Almost half of the species' population has been decimated from a mosquito-borne disease. Scientists are now calling ...

Scientists are racing to monitor the spread of a mosquito-borne disease which has been linked to a decline in the blackbird population. The disease Usutu has spread across much of southern England ...

However, after that summer’s heatwave, Usutu, which originates from Africa, was detected in several blackbirds in Greater London. "Blackbirds specifically are quite susceptible to the virus and since ...

The House Agriculture Committee voted to advance legislation that would make significant changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as part of the effort to institute federal ...

The deadly Usutu virus can be transmitted by infected insects to blackbirds, sparking concerns for the well-loved songbirds. Recent data reveals that Usutu has swept across much of southern ...

Infected insects can spread the deadly Usutu virus to blackbirds, raising fears for the famous songsters. New data shows Usutu has spread across much of southern England in five years, and has ...