How to play the peanut butter tree game with your hounds

Beagles will climb a tree if you smear it with peanut butter.

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What's black and white and not an Asian longhorn beetle?

At least 10 species of beetle are easily mistaken for the hated Asian longhorn beetle.

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Can outdoor education work in a New York City park?

Europeans have embraced outdoor classes for little kids to reconnect them to the natural world. West coast parents have swarmed outdoor pre-K where toddlers stomp through rain, snow and mud. Now a teacher is bringing the Forest School philosophy to Brooklyn’s big park. What will the kids find in the urban woods?

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Brooklyn hatches its first native great horned owlets in a century

Two great horned owlets on nest

The Prospect Park owls have hatched two chicks that can are now big enough to flap around and think about flying. They’re the first raised in the borough since records were kept.

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Whale watching in NYC, New wolf in Africa

Whales, dolphins and seals moving back to New York harbor, especially off Queens.

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