Animals

Goats can be good for a lot of things, from cheese to yoga and now fire suppression.

Lisa Schonberg on juggling life as a musician and entomologist, native bee habitats, ant acoustics and the new Secret Drum Band record "Chuva."

The Trump administration is proposing to define what land and water can be declared as “habitat” for imperiled plants and animals _ potentially excluding areas that species could use in the future

The governor of Washington state and other state officials have criticized a Navy military testing program that would potentially harm endangered orcas if approved

Fifty years ago Oregon officials decided to blow up a dead whale. What happened next is the stuff of legend.

Northwest conservation and anti-pollution organizations say the Trump administration’s changes to a bedrock environmental law from the Nixon era will have major impacts in the region.

The coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancelation of the Oregon State Fair and is forcing county fairs to cancel or adapt. While that means there won’t be pig racing and demolition-derbies, families are trying to figure out how to recognize kids for their animal husbandry – the 4-H and ‘Future Farmers of America’ shows.

A petition that called for new rules to limit when the state can kill endangered wolves that prey on livestock was rejected Friday by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission.

A study of sea otter restoration in British Columbia is giving encouragement to a group that wants to bring sea otters back to the Oregon Coast.

The spotted owl changed the fate of Northwest forests in the summer of 1990. Thirty years later, what hope, if any, do biologists hold for the fate of the spotted owl?