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A group of people stands around newly planted trees, celebrating an outdoor planting event.

Home

Massachusetts residents can claim free trees this fall to cool homes, lower energy bills

A person measures a concrete block wall with a tape measure in a construction area.

Home

For sloped yards, natural stone retaining walls may last longer than concrete blocks

Three images depict a fox in different situations: resting on newspaper, receiving medical treatment, and running outdoors.

Outdoors

Fox trapped between a shed and fence regains use of front legs, sprints back into wild

A northern rubber boa.

Outdoors

British Columbia homeowner checking irrigation finds rare rubber boa on pool deck

A spider resting on green grass and leaves.

Tech

UK's giant fen raft spiders are back from the brink of extinction

A bee crawls along a white surface near a window.

Home

Homeowner spots bees packing 'cement' into front door, learns they're building egg chambers

An opossum is visible in a box, surrounded by crumpled paper, with its mouth open.

Home

Homeowner puts tiny opossum outside, then it moves back into a bedroom dresser drawer

A raccoon sits among crumpled paper in a storage bin.

Outdoors

Homeowner fears raccoon is trapped in backyard box, then hidden camera catches it leaving nightly

A nest in a tree.

Outdoors

Backyard squirrel's rare piebald coat has Reddit calling it a 'calico squirrel'

Bats in a downspout.

Home

Atlanta homeowner finds bats in downspout, told to 'wait until late August, then evict them'

A fawn.

Outdoors

Fawn found wedged in Michigan subdivision gate walks free after firefighter rescue

A tawny frogmouth.

Outdoors

Baby tawny frogmouth found on Australian trail appears back in nest after hanging-basket save