Butterfly

For many kids and teenagers with disabilities, summertime can make it harder to find services that are often provided at school. But the Grand Traverse Area Children’s Garden is trying to help by letting kids try out their green thumbs.

It’s an approach promoted by other states and the federal government as a way to create important habitat for pollinators. But it’s not as simple as scattering a few seeds around solar panels.

A lot of people spent the Fourth of July weekend grilling out or swimming at the beach. But Cale Nordmeyer spent his time trudging through the muck and...

This week, two environmental groups, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Food Safety, put the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on...

Monarch butterflies are not around in the numbers they used to be — not by a long shot. By some estimates, monarch populations have dropped by 90% over...

Monarch butterflies are declining. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering whether to add the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under...