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Across the southeastern United States, a quiet biological upheaval is unfolding as giant reptiles spread into new territory ...

Cozy climate and other factors align in Florida to make the state Earth’s playground for the most established, invasive ...

It was one Christmas visitor that didn’t overstay its welcome. A Burmese python that had been spotted in a Miami-Dade neighborhood was removed just days before Christmas after a resident out for a ...

The average price of a Christmas tree in New York City is about $119. That’s based on nearly 300 responses from readers who are helping us track the price of pines across the five boroughs this month.

This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was chopped down in Rensselaer County, New York. Statistically speaking, that’s unusual. While New York state is one of the 10 leading producers of ...

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Big Lonely Doug is a sight to behold—achingly beautiful yet incredibly sad. The thousand-year-old, two-hundred-foot Douglas Fir stands in the midst of a vast clear-cut on the rugged west coast of ...