Environment

1+ week, 47+ min ago   (393+ words) COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jason Cervenec and his children are caring for two newly planted tulip poplar trees. They’re not in his own yard, but at the children’s grandparents’ home, where the family hopes they’ll eventually provide more shade. The trees came…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (352+ words) The tiny hairs on stinging nettle’s stems inject an irritating compound on contact. Andreas Rockstein / Flickr Ohio’s fertile soil is great for lawns and gardens, but it also produces a bumper crop of weeds, from crabgrass, dandelions and clover to…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (403+ words) CLEVELAND, Ohio — Gov. Mike DeWine is directing the Ohio EPA to end E-Check requirements in Ohio, a program that currently applies to seven northeast Ohio counties. The move follows the U.S. EPA's redesignation of the Cleveland region as meeting federal…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (463+ words) Georgia Power, the state's leading electric utility serving customers in all but four Georgia counties, is proud to continue its longstanding partnership with Friends of Georgia State Parks & Historic Sites (Friends) – a nonprofit organization with a mission to serve, support,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (940+ words) Hummingbirds are heading out of Ohio, heading to warmer climates for the winter. Accuweather reports that hummingbirds in the northern half of the state were expected to begin their migration between Sept. 13 and and 20, with the southern half following from…...