Sep 30, 2019
Agricultural fertilizer runoffs from the Midwest are resulting in an algae-choked “dead zone” the size of Massachusetts at the mouth of the Mississippi River in the Gulf of Mexico.
Sep 17, 2019
Monarch butterflies have experienced an 80 percent population decline over the last 20 years, partly due to loss of milkweed plants, the only food source for monarch caterpillars.
Monitors look for bees in 100-meter transects, spending 30 minutes in each one. Barb Krupa, an undergraduate zoology major at ONU, is active at Midewin as often as three days a week.
