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Wildlife Underpasses Can Reduce Amphibian Road Deaths by More Than 80%: Study

Wildlife Underpasses Can Reduce Amphibian Road Deaths by More Than 80%: Study

Amphibians like frogs and salamanders face mounting threats around the world, including habitat loss, climate change, deadly fungus and road mortality. Roads pose an immediate danger by cutting amphibians off from crucial migration corridors and putting them in the path of vehicles, which kill millions of animals annually. Now, a first-of-its kind study led by […]
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All Climate Change Is Local: A Story of Tacoma Park’s Trees With Author Mike Tidwell

All Climate Change Is Local: A Story of Tacoma Park’s Trees With Author Mike Tidwell

In 2018, devastating rains hit Mike Tidwell’s community of Tacoma Park, Maryland, leading to a loss of tree canopy the following year unparalleled in the city’s history. After the torrential rainfall, Tidwell went on a kind of detective’s quest to find out what was killing the trees of Willow Avenue and elsewhere in Tacoma Park, […]
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