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A little air-conditioning might help some bat populations better resist a deadly fungal pathogen. Bat populations have been dropping drastically due to white-nose syndrome across the eastern and central United...

White-tailed deer on Staten Island have tested positive for the Omicron variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. It’s the first time the highly-contagious variant has been detected in wildlife...

On Groundhog Day, all eyes are on one particular groundhog. But groundhogs, it seems, are not so solitary. Researching groundhogs in Maine, Christine Maher, a behavioral ecologist at the University...

Porcupines in Maine are contracting a deadly virus that wildlife experts say could pose a threat to the population. The Bangor Daily News reports that at least three porcupines (Erethizon...

The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is a massive piece of architecture, even by New York City standards. The building takes up four city blocks of space right alongside the...

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Environmental DNA techniques can detect a deadly virus in amphibian ponds, giving wildlife managers critical information about how to best protect vulnerable amphibian species. Ranavirus is deadly to amphibians. “It’s...

Maine is conducting its first-ever statewide survey of wintering birds. The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is updating its Maine Bird Atlas, a citizen science project that tracks...

Many studies focus on the effects of insect pests on forest vegetation. But new research shows that spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii), originally from Asia but now found widely in...

Human presence is changing how deer and a suite of predators interact in Pennsylvania state forests and the surrounding areas. Predators can affect the ways that white-tailed deer use different...