PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Zoo announced that 23 endangered western pond turtles are now back in the wild. The turtles have been at the zoo’s conservation lab since October. “Here in the conservation ...

GREENWICH — Since the start of the Binney Pond dredging project, Town residents have been calling Town Hall, the Bruce Museum, local media, even the state, with concerns about protecting the pond’s ...

is releasing nearly 60 endangered western pond turtles in the Columbia River Gorge this month, part of an on-going effort to restore a Northwest native that has teetered on the edge of extinction. The ...

OKALOOSA ISLAND — The various creatures that call the large, main pond at Veterans Park their home began sharing it Tuesday morning with dozens of newcomers, including scores of bluegills and ...

A newly discovered fungus is thought to be causing a shell disease that is harming freshwater turtles, including western pond turtles in the Columbia River Gorge. “It’s always exciting to identify a ...

CHICO — The western pond turtle in Butte County is currently shaking in its shell, due to habitat alteration and introduced species that are killing off the local reptile. The western pond turtle, or ...

It is a scorcher of an afternoon, the kind of day when it’s hard to imagine water, much less pond turtles, left anywhere in the Santa Monica Mountains. In the heat, Rosi Dagit and her small crew of ...

Harmful algal blooms (HABs), dubbed “red tides,” occur worldwide. When ingested, tiny, toxin-producing algae threaten marine and human life. These events — sometimes natural, but often human-induced — ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A struggling turtle has two local officers to thank for making snappy decisions to save its life. Prairie Village Animal Control Officer Courtney Sievers and Leawood Animal ...

What a state we live in! Ski areas have 8 feet of snow and here in Marin wildflowers are blooming. One early bloomer in our madrone woodlands is a dark red lousewort with fern-like leaves. This flower ...