A light-hearted roundup of this week’s Cambridge news, including University conservation efforts and a much-anticipated store opening ...

In northeast Illinois, the Greenbelt Forest Preserve covers 607 acres between North Chicago and Waukegan. Invasive plants, including teasel, Canada thistle, canary grass, buckthorn and common reed, ...

Increasing summer temperatures, drought, disease, land use changes and insecticides have all been blamed for the precipitous ...

A project is under way to try and help one of the UK's "most threatened" species of bumblebee. The Bumblebee Conservation ...

A silverback gorilla has undergone a routine medical check-up – in front of a crowd of onlookers. Bakari the 21-year-old had ...

Scything has come quaintly back to the English countryside. The conservation charity English Heritage recently recruited volunteers willing to cut grass in the way of their ancestors—with the Grim ...

Heritage bosses have reintroduced ancient scything methods at a historic abbey to help protect one of Britain’s rarest bumblebees. The centuries-old countryside tradition is being revived by English ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. English Heritage volunteer practices centuries-old scything method on the meadows at Muchelney Abbey in Somerset to improve ...

Heritage bosses have reintroduced ancient scything methods at a historic abbey to help protect one of Britain's rarest bumblebees. The centuries-old countryside tradition is being revived by English ...