When people think about habitats on Earth, they likely picture forests, oceans or grasslands. Few think to look up. Yet the lower atmosphere, or troposphere, may be the largest habitat on the planet.

California's pesticide regulators are proposing rodenticide use at more than 100,000 new locations statewide, including parks ...

Smith College students and staff built a man-made hibernaculum at the MacLeish Field Station to provide a protected shelter for Eastern rat snakes and other species to survive the winter months.

In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their habitats were officially declared extinct on the International Union for ...

In the rugged terrain where Mexico and the United States meet, a border wall is just the latest obstacle fragmenting habitats ...

No one wants to find a rat swimming around in their toilet bowl. If one turns up, however, it’s best that you know what to do ...

We live in an age where taking photographs is easier than ever. The numbers are honestly wild—research suggests roughly 1.8 ...

As part of a recent grant, students at Smith College have completed a project focused on helping the endangered Eastern rat ...

Jay Ingram's "The Science of Pets" is a must-read about facts and myths about a global "petpourri" of animals, what's in ...

Just before going home for the holidays, Smith College students constructed a winter house for Eastern rat snakes at the MacLeish Field Station as part of a habitat restoration project for native ...

At NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Matthew Strausser protects wildlife, from snakes to deer, and ensures they don't interrupt critical spaceflight operations.