You don't have to be a birder to love watching hummingbirds in your yard. But if you live east of the Mississippi River, ...

As the frost line retreats northward in early spring, its withdrawal is often closely followed — and occasionally preceded — ...

The Eastern Whip-poor-will (Antrostomus vociferus) is often heard but seldom observed due to its camouflage plumage. It sings its name on summer nights from moist, leafy woodlands. By day, this bird ...

More than a dozen seals have been found dead after a second incident of bird flu has hit the north Norfolk coast, scientists have said. Government scientists found that the virus had been detected ...

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Photo shows New Year's Weather: Dark grey storm clouds over a green forested area, with a rain storm on the horizon.

But to many of the smaller democracies of Eastern Europe and South and East Asia, which have for decades hitched their fate to an America that they thought would enable them to continue to exist ...

Since 2022, H5N1 has been infecting chickens, cows, wild birds and cats — among several other animals. With a record number of human cases in the U.S., the situation is getting increasingly ...

Come March and something very special is happening in our hedgerows. In parks and gardens across the UK, birds are preparing to welcome in the next generation by building nests. March to September ...

I love Eastern Europe's sense of community and culture. But I eventually realized the country I left behind has its own beauty, too, in its diversity. Three years ago, I boarded a plane and flew ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...

The ongoing spread of the highly pathogenic bird flu worldwide is reaching an “unprecedented” scale, a United Nations agency warned Monday. Speaking at a conference in Rome, key members of the ...