Beverly Campbell has spent the past 50 years shaping young minds, creating a learning environment where curiosity and ...

Jason Hoover's porch is lined with mesh cages for monarchs. (Cris Barrish/WHYY) “Oh Mike, look! Your butterfly just emerged,” Jason Hoover calls to Mike Yingling across their connected porches in ...

It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Magnolia Montgomery, age 12, peered into a rectangular enclosure covered with ...

HERE’S KCCI ALYSSA GOMEZ WILMER HOEKSTRA IS 99 YEARS OLD, BUT SHE’S LOVED MONARCH BUTTERFLIES SINCE SHE WAS A YOUNG GIRL. I WAS KIND OF A BUG KID. WE WOULD CATCH LITTLE CREATURES AND KEEP THEM IN ...

SHERWOOD (WLUK) -- With its distinctive black, orange and white coloring, the monarch butterfly is a familiar flyer in North America, but scientists say the population numbers are dropping as much as ...

"Monarchs have been in decline since the 80s because of loss of habitat due to primarily spraying herbicides and insecticides," said Matt Lahm, assistant curator of conservation education at the ...