White Nose Syndrome

More than 200 acres of trees must be cut along the Route 219 corridor before the end of March because the trees are potential Indiana bat habitats.   Pennsylvania Department of Transportation District 9 executive Tom Prestash said in a telephone...

  Twelve-year-old Robert Thompson had a batty idea to help him earn the ranking of Eagle Scout.   The Meyersdale Area School District 7th-grader enlisted the help of his teachers and peers to a install a bat box in wetlands near the high school....

Maryland's first industrial-scale wind energy project would be required under a federal plan issued Monday to slow down its turbines at certain times of the year to reduce the number of endangered bats that might be killed by the long, spinning blades....

Officials investigating a disease that kills bats have noticed a severe decline in a bat population in an abandoned cement mine in Washington County. The number of bats in the mine is the lowest since monitoring of the problem began in 1998, according...

Authorities investigating a disease that kills bats have noticed a severe decline in a bat population in an abandoned cement mine in Washington County. The number of bats in the mine is the lowest since monitoring of the problem was started in 1998,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently estimated that 5.7 to 6.7 million bats in North America have died due to white-nose syndrome. First noticed in New York in 2006, the mysterious disease has spread into 16 states, including Virginia, and Canada....

The fungus starts by gathering around the bat's muzzle, ears and wings. Ulcers form in the affected skin, and the fungus grows like a white mold. The disease is called "white-nose syndrome," and recently, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced...

LEAVENWORTH, Ind. (AP) — An Iraq war veteran and caving enthusiast took his own life about half a mile from where he left his car on a rural road but more than four months passed before four young spelunkers exploring where they weren't allowed...

Wildlife Biologists are concerned about a deadly fungus that is rapidly spreading among bat populations. The "white-nose syndrome," as it is known, has killed as many as 6.7 million bats in the eastern United States and Canada since 2006, according to...

Editor: After reading your recent article onbats reported at apartment complexes in Aberdeen, for the sake of balance in your paper as well as the ecosystem, please publish thatbats come with benefits too. Bats eat tons of mosquitos, preventing the...

Researchers say they now have proof that a fungus discovered in 2007 is responsible for white-nose syndrome, the devastating infectious disease that has killed more than 1 million bats in North America. The confirmation is a significant step toward...

Bats may warrant endangered species status because of white nose syndrome, which is killing bats....