Conservation

In spite of the rain as of late, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources is still asking everyone to conserve water as many counties have been in drought conditions.

A meeting for the expansion of protections to Logan, Union, Champaign, Madison and Pickaway counties is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday at Tolles Career Center in Plain City.

Columbus expands green spaces with five new nature preserves, including Warner Woods, to safeguard local wildlife and offer residents more parks

Wildlife protection groups are decrying the proposal as an attempt to gut a century-old law that protects birds, while industry groups say they have long been hamstrung by the threat of legal action.

Rows of nearly identical houses run along gently meandering roads in Jefferson Township’s Willow Brook subdivision. It’s suburban, but tucked in here is a…

North America's largest amphibian, the Hellbender salamander, is in trouble. They are endangered in several states. A team in Ohio is trying to save them before it's too late.

Artwork doesn't go on display right away when the Cleveland Museum of Art acquires it. The first stop is the conservation department. Some pieces move through quickly, and others require work. Yi-Hsia Hsiao and her colleague speak to one another in Chinese as they work on smoothing out the creases on a wet piece of patterned, silk spread on the table in the Asian painting lab on a recent afternoon. “I’m an art doctor. I save art[‘s] life,” said Hsaio, an assistant conservator of Chinese paintings.