Agriculture ministers from Alberta and Saskatchewan are frustrated by Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA ...

Richardson's ground squirrels — colloquially known as gophers — are currently hibernating, but they're making headlines after Ottawa rejected a bid by the governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan to ...

Saskatchewan and Alberta are disappointed with a decision by federal regulators against using a pesticide to manage ...

A massive winter storm dumped sleet, freezing rain and snow across much of the U.S. on Sunday, bringing subzero temperatures ...

The poison strychnine continues to be banned in Canada after the emergency use exemptions sought by Alberta and Saskatchewan ...

A request from Alberta and Saskatchewan to allow use of strychnine to control Richardson’s ground squirrels, or gophers, for this growing season was recently denied by Canada’s Pest Management ...

John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

As we head into the weekend, a major winter storm system is going to slide some of the coldest air we’ve felt in years right over Michigan - and we’re going to be in a deep freeze for a few days. How ...

Viral social media posts are warning about "exploding trees" during a major winter storm. The phenomenon, known as "frost cracks," is real but trees rarely explode completely. This is unlikely to ...

This week’s library column topic I found several weeks ago while researching for a previous column. And so, this week I’m writing about squirrels. Rodents or pests to many? Maybe. But squirrels still ...

A meteorologist warned of the risk of "exploding trees" later this week as extreme cold hits the northern U.S. A huge portion of the country is under cold-related weather alerts, with advisories ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Massachusetts is already preparing for sub-zero temperatures and a massive snowstorm this weekend, but will residents also have to ...