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Bats are crucial bug control tools for the agricultural industry. When their populations are harmed, food production costs can rise.

Through Sept. 29, the state has recorded 65 complaints of bear home entries. It's a surprisingly large figure — and one that's more than double the average number of entries recorded each year from 2017 through 2021.

A severely entangled right whale was spotted 15 miles south of Nantucket on Wednesday by researchers from the New England Aquarium. The 17-year-old whale known as Snow Cone was carrying fishing gear from a new entanglement, along with gear from an earlier incident.

More than 1,300 donors from across Connecticut and 34 other states outbid to close the sale of the Killingworth campgrounds to conservationists for $4.75 million, instead of a private developer.

For more than two decades, Stephen Leslie has worked to restore 60 acres of farmland in Hartland, Vermont. In the final installment of our Summer School series, Vermont Public’s Elodie Reed took a walk with him to learn how.

To gauge the amount of methylmercury in the environment, the National Park Service launched a research project more than a decade ago that measures the toxin in dragonfly larvae.

In its announcement, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program says a review of scientific data shows current management measures don't go far enough to mitigate entanglement risks and promote recovery of the North Atlantic right whale.

The summer's drought will make some trees turn color earlier than normal.

An endangered timber rattlesnake bit two dogs recently. Venomous snake bites are a rare event in Connecticut.

The Boy Scouts’ Connecticut Yankee Council is in the final stage of negotiations to sell Deer Lake for $4.75 million to Pathfinders, Inc.