Tucked back just off of Lynchburg Turnpike is a haven for native wildlife in Salem, created by students and faculty at Roanoke College. Over the summer, through the National Wildlife Federation and ...

SALEM, Va. – What’s now a lush meadow, used to be a pile of rubble on Roanoke College’s campus. It’s now home to native plants like Black-eyed Susans, blue vervain and mint. “This was a landfill site ...

Halloween is the season of things that go bump in the night - bats swooping overhead, glowing eyes in the dark and mysterious rustling in the bushes. For many of us, those images can send a chill down ...

I sometimes suspect that Humphrey and I share something in common, and that would be not what we think but how we think. This came to mind last night while I sat on my patio waiting and watching for a ...

BRITTONS NECK — Fireflies flickered in near synchronicity against the dark canopy as two researchers worked below in a swampy clearing. Standing over a dented card table, they placed a tiny, ...