VOLUNTEERS are helping a Stroud conservation charity to monitor water pollution in local rivers. The Stroud Valleys Project ...

The Stroud Valleys Project (SVP) is testing waterways for nitrate and phosphate levels as part of a nationwide scheme organised by the Earthwatch Europe Institute to raise awareness of water pollution ...

Not everyone seems to get as excited about galls as I do. A gall is an abnormal growth on a plant. Galls can occur anywhere– leaves, stems or roots and are usually caused by insects, fungi, or ...

In an old coal-mining town in northern Texas, around 130 miles from Dallas/Fort Worth, Greg Buenger raises beef cattle on his ranch. But Buenger, also a Texas Farm Bureau District 3 state director and ...

Palaeontologists unveiled a 99-million-year-old mosquito larva preserved in Burmese amber, the earliest known mosquito fossil and the first immature specimen from the Mesozoic, according to Phys.org.

NAGOYA -- Beetle larvae-shaped jellies? When the idea was first pitched at a meeting, the reception was lukewarm. "Most kids who like beetles are boys. Are we really going to cut our target market in ...

It is summer in Tucson and along with the heat comes the first high-pitched buzzzzzz. Find out more about our cicada friends. 1. Tucson’s cicadas are Cactus Dodgers and Apaches The cicadas most common ...