Environment

The Cincinnati zoo is growing feed for its animals locally.

The Lazarus lizard was smuggled into Cincinnati from Italy more than 70 years ago. A team of student researchers at Ohio Wesleyan University is studying how they’ve adapted.

The Family Forest Carbon Program is helping Ohio landowners connect to the complicated carbon market.

A team of locals in Athens County is trying to make former mine land economically productive again. Instead of harvesting coal, they’re creating a community forest.

Microplastics litter the water of all five Great Lakes, but there’s no coordinated, region-wide effort to monitor plastic pollution. A board of scientists is recommending a solution.

Ohio’s inaugural “Soil Health Week” highlighted ways that farmers can implement climate-resilient practices using common language. .

Many of Ohio’s waterways have faced bacterial contaminations this summer. It has a lasting impact on lake and riverfront town economies.

A proposed bill would make seed sharing of milkweed and other native plants legal. That could in turn boost monarch butterfly populations in the state.

Piqua became one of the only places in America where researchers conducted the tests. Residents are worried about chemicals they may have been exposed to.

Ohio received nearly $5 million in federal funding to build a ‘climate ready’ workforce. The program will train 100 participants in the skills needed to combat climate change.