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Ken Baker: Global temperatures, wildfires, EV sales were all on the rise in 2023
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 5 months agoI usually like to end a year of these columns with a hodgepodge of odd-ball natural history tidbits,...
Ken Baker: Controlling Tree-of-heaven's growth can control spread of spotted lanternflies
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAbout 35 yards down the alley in back of my garage is a 60-foot import from China, a female...
Ken Baker: How do animals perceive time?
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe question for today is whether animals can time travel. Mentally time travel, that is. Psychologists and neuroscientists refer to the ability of one’s...
Ken Baker: Crayfish are a 200 million industry in U.S.
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 11 months agoMudbugs? Fiddlers? Blue yabbies? If you waded your first creek in a northern state, you probably...
Ken Baker: Lanternflies are a growing threat to fruit and other plants
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThere’s a cartoon in the Oct. 2 New Yorker of a gray, croissant-shaped insect standing on a stage...
Ken Baker: Efforts underway to save mussels in an Ohio river
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMucket, fatmucket, and purple wartyback. Elktoe, giant floater, mapleleaf, fluted-shell, and...
Ken Baker: Bartlett's 28th Annual Big Sit for Education
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoYou’d have to be a little more than just a little bit crazy to be Tom Bartlett on World Migratory...
Ken Baker: Hummingbirds are tiny but known for their aggressiveness
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 11 months agoFWHIZZHH-chip-vwiizzh! FWHIZZHH-chip- vwiizzh! FWHIZZHH-chip- vwiizzh… This was one seriously...
Ken Baker: Should they be called natives, nonnatives or invasives?
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAssignment: Read the two paragraphs below and submit essays to the discussion questions. Baker spent...
Ken Baker: Why 24 hours to the day and 60 minutes to an hour?
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoInventor of the clock: "There will be 12 numbers on the face of the clock." Your average citizen: So...