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It was heartbreaking. I’ve watched the charming antics of squirrels around my home for decades now, so what I saw on the ...

Field researchers at Briones Regional Park in Northern California observed ground squirrels hunting and eating voles, ...

Both squirrels and jays help to plant more oaks by caching them and not retrieving all of them. Oaks are important trees in ...

Vishal Subramanyan and Prakrit Jain had never even heard of the rare shrew they would soon spend months chasing. The students were both in the same mammalogy class at the University of California, ...

On the final Friday of her vice-presidency, Kamala Harris partook in one last ritual. She looked disbelievingly as she walked ...

Murray Zelt was enjoying photographing a northern pygmy owl hunting a vole near 100 Mile House in B.C.'s Cariboo, about 500 ...

The campaigns director for the Sierra Club says that Trump's withdrawal from the climate accord is a 'call to action' for ...

President Donald Trump announced Monday he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, a significant move on his first day back in the White House cutting ties with the United Nations’ ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — As wildfires in California rage on, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are battling over recovery funding. “No one wants to leave any American who is in need, hanging, so to speak,” said ...

A high population of voles at some parks in Roseville has been causing damage to plants, irrigation lines, and sports fields. — pushing local agencies to find a way to address the problem naturally.

Powerful Santa Ana winds fueled the rapid spread of the blazes. Climate change has likely contributed to the unprecedented wildfires that are raging through Southern California. Five wildfires ...