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The Association of Zoos
and Aquariums (AZA) and GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) recently welcomed the GEICO Gecko and his wild cousins to the Saint Louis Zoo.

“GEICO and AZA have an important principle in common,…[read further]

If you have noticed two very bright stars in the southwest sky after sunset, you are actually looking at two planets - Jupiter and Venus. It is the best pairing of these two planets until 2012.

Reflecting 65…[read further]

A report released yesterday by the Environmental Integrity Project named two coal-fired power generating plants as among the 50 worst emitters of mercury into the environment. The same report also placed Arkansas among the “Dirty Dozen” states with the highest…[read further]

LITTLE ROCK - People should be “bear aware” of the hazards posed by increasing black bear populations in Arkansas even though attacks are rare, says Rebecca McPeake

“Most bears avoid direct contact with humans,” she says. “Bear attacks…[read further]

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources will temporarily close five state parks for public safety reasons for two weekends during December while special hunts are being conducted to alleviate deer overpopulations.

By law, state parks are established as…[read further]

We live in a universe of almost unimaginable size. To give you an idea of the scale, we can only use optical and radio methods to observe objects out to about 13,000 million light years away and nobody knows what…[read further]

The Arkansas Highway Commission is getting serious about litter, voting to notify rural residents that if they do not remove wooden or metal trash bins from the side of the road, the homemade trash receptacles will be destroyed.

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Replanting a live Christmas tree can enhance your landscape for years, but it will require some special attention, said a University of Missouri Extension horticulturist.

“Be sure to keep the tree outdoors as long as possible,” said Chris…[read further]