Put plainly, ball moss isn’t pretty. While Spanish moss can look like a sophisticated adornment, greenish-gray clumps of ball ...

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The goldspotted oak-borer, an invasive beetle responsible for killing 200,000 trees in Southern California, is now present in Ventura County. It's the northernmost reach of the insect.

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Extremely cold weather is hanging around this week, but many things are getting back to normal. Just don't forget to wear a ...

These Arizona hole-in-the-wall spots may be easy to miss, but loyal regulars refuse to give them up for anything else.

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Bitter cold and power outages persist as the death toll rises in Middle Tennessee after Winter Storm Fern. Emergency response ...

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A new scientific assessment finds California's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is in poor ecological health, and that a big reason is the amount of water being pumped out.

New Mexico’s official state animal is the American black bear, but the choice reflected more than the presence of a large mammal in the state’s forests. Lawmakers selected the black bear in 1963 ...