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URI Associate Professor Dr. Keith Killingbeck checks on a large poison ivy bush in the Marsh Meadows Wildlife Preserve off North Road in Jamestown
Journal photo / John Freidah
URI Associate Professor Dr. Keith Killingbeck checks on a large poison ivy bush in the Marsh Meadows Wildlife Preserve off North Road in Jamestown.

Could poison ivy be one of the big winners of climate change? Lewis Ziska, a plant physiologist with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, in Maryland, thinks so.

DEM looking for help with turkey count
Rhode Island wild turkeys

PROVIDENCE -- Wild turkeys appear to be on the decline in Rhode Island, and the state Department of Environmental Management has turned to the public for help. The DEM's Division of Fish and Wildlife wants people to report sightings of hen turkeys with or without immature birds, known as poults.


Through this URI entomologist, ticks talk
URI scientist Thomas Mather

To that great majority of us who experience ordinary disgust (if not outright horror) when beholding the tick, Thomas N. Mather's long fascination with these bloodsucking disease carriers seems terribly wrong. Until he begins to explain.


R.I. officials work to stop invasion of Asian longhorned beetle
Asian longhorned beetle

WORCESTER, Mass. -- Since August, the beetles have destroyed 20,000 trees in a 64-acre zone that includes Worcester and parts of Holden, Shrewsbury, Boylston and West Boylston. Now, authorities fear the pest may spread to other New England states.



From The Journal


Ultra-eco-friendly house in Narragansett

Journal / Tom Murphy
An ultra-eco-friendly house is going up along the shore in Narragansett. Read the story

 

Alternative fuel

Wood pellet stoves are hot, hot, hot in Rhode Island
wood pellets

The boom for the stoves began in June. Local stove shops, which usually enjoy quiet summers, have been flat out ever since. Now, while a few stoves are available here and there, several store owners said they are taking orders for February, at the earliest.



Coasting on biodiesel

Ponaganset students, teacher 'selling' biodiesel as a fuel coast to coast

Ross McCurdy and the three former and current Ponaganset students are making the 3,000-mile trek from Rhode Island to Los Angeles in a pickup truck fueled by biodiesel, a non-petroleum-based fuel made from vegetable oil.



Special Report: Troubles by the Curb

Troubles by the Curb: The state Central Landfill is bursting at the seams. Without stepped-up recycling, even a planned expansion will only put off a crisis.
The state's Central Landfill is bursting at the seams. Without stepped-up recycling, even a planned expansion will only put off a crisis. Read the story...


How to be green and clean

Candita Clayton of East Providence has written a book about cleaning green -- clearing your house of a variety of toxins by using green cleaning products.

Journal photo / Sandor Bodo

Living the Green Life