Actress Nikki Rodriguez shares her connection to nature, passion for wildlife conservation, and hope for protecting habitats ...

Actress and model Nikki Rodriguez shares her connection to nature, passion for wildlife conservation, and hope for protecting habitats and species.

Opossums again being spotted around the region; columnist says unfamiliar marsupial may look out of place, but it’s far from ...

Opossums are again being spotted around the region. Columnist says the unfamiliar marsupial may look out of place, but it’s far from a menace ...

Ticks are active in Fairfax County almost year round, including warm winter days. Lyme disease is still the best known and most common disease spread by ticks in Virginia, but there are others such as ...

The world's first lab-based tick feeding system for bush ticks, developed by researchers at the University of Melbourne, has ...

Often dismissed as pests, opossums are among the most misunderstood mammals in North America. When threatened, they don’t choose to “play dead” — they involuntarily enter a stress-induced comatose ...

Freezing temperatures do not kill ticks, as they have evolved sophisticated ways to survive the winter. Land management, forest regrowth, and deer populations are bigger factors in tick numbers than ...