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The hippocampus is a key part of the brain involved in forming and retrieving memories. This is the only part of the brain where new neurons are formed in response to environmental events.

Students and youth groups are invited to join the Great Wisconsin Oriole Count this spring. Baltimore Orioles are found throughout Wisconsin during the spring and summer.

The six state parks in Door County attract 14.5 percent of the 14 million people who visit Wisconsin’s 69 state parks annually. That was one of many nuggets found in the recently released Economic Impacts of the Wisconsin State Park System: Connections to Gateway Communities, co-produced by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Parks and Recreation and the University of Wisconsin– Madison Department of Urban and Regional Planning.

NEWPORT STATE PARK Total Visits: 137,088 Local Daytrips: 30,845 Local Overnight: 10,282 Non-local Daytrips: 71,971 Non-local Overnight: 23,990 PENINSULA STATE PARK Total Visits: 1,077,397 Local Daytrips: 94,272 Local Overnight: 282,817 Non-local Daytrips: 315,139 Non-local Overnight: 385,169 POTOWATAMI STATE PARK Total Visits: 209,390 Local Daytrips: 78,521 Local Overnight: 26,174 Non-local Daytrips: 20,939 Non-local Overnight: 83,756 ROCK […]

Great advances have been made during the past 20 years in retrieving and mapping ancient DNA. The techniques used are truly remarkable, and DNA is routinely being obtained and analyzed from fossilized or long-dead human and animal remains.

A free screening of Climate Refugees will be shown at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Ephraim on March 18 at 4:30 pm. A “climate refugee” is a person displaced by climatically induced environmental disaster.

Drugs that greatly enhance the immune system’s response to cancer cells may be the wave of the future in treating malignancies – if we can afford them.

Wisconsin ranks second nationally in the proportion of citizens considered birders, with fully one-third of residents 16 and older reporting they travel to watch birds, or actively watch and identify birds around home, according to a recently released U.

Several work days have been scheduled for The Rushes on Kangaroo Lake. Tree planting and some invasives control on the trails are scheduled for April 29 through May 1.

The Door County Master Gardeners welcome Sharon Morrisey, consumer horticulture agent for the Milwaukee County UW Extension, to Door County for a free presentation of “Your Lawn: Organic, Conventional, or In-Between” on March 18 at 7 pm at Crossroads at Big Creek in Sturgeon Bay.

The Door County Environmental Council in cooperation with Kewaunee Cares will present Living Downstream, a documentary based on Sandra Steingraber’s book of the same name, on Wednesday, March 12, at 7 pm at Crossroads At Big Creek, 2041 Michigan St.

Anthropologists and archaeologists recently discovered dozens of skeletons from people buried in a “thousand-year-old graveyard” located around an abandoned medieval church in Altopascio, Italy.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has released a list of 33 parcels of land that are currently under review for possible sale in response to a new state law that requires the Natural Resources Board to make 10,000 acres of land available for sale by June 30, 2017.

The Wisconsin Invasive Species Council is calling for nominations for the 2014 Invader Crusader awards to take place during Invasive Species Awareness Month in June.

“Wildflowers and their Insects” are the subjects of a talk by John Stiefel, sponsored by the Door County Chapter of Wild Ones. The Wild Ones advocate for native plants in landscaping, and the talk will show the unique relationships of butterflies with native vegetation.

If you need a little reprieve from the cold and the snow, read this Q&A with Jean Ehmke, and start plotting some garden projects. Ehmke, who works at Jerry’s Flowers in Sister Bay and is a Door County Master Gardener volunteer, recently taught two classes as part of The Clearing’s Winter Program; the classes added some green to white winter days.

Changing behaviors is a tall order, but essential if we are to mitigate the many adverse impacts of climate change. We all need to be more mindful of the consequences of the many small decisions we make every day, often without thinking.

Here’s some good news regarding the environment. Compared to average annual carbon dioxide increases of 2.9 percent since the year 2000, in 2012 emissions of the gas increased only 1.

Afraid of snakes? You are not alone, for most terrestrial mammals have an aversion to them. Some believe that for a million years, snakes have influenced the evolution of primates, including man.

Learn all about the latest in advanced nutritional approaches to cardiovascular health and disease prevention in a free seminar on Feb. 20 at 1 pm presented by Nicole Dersé, CNC (certified nutrition consultant).