When the North American Bat Conservation Alliance (NABCA) released its first ever State of Bats report this spring, it was intended as a baseline record of how bat species in North America were faring ...

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Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Bats don't exactly have a glowing public image. After all, they're associated with blood-sucking ...

A matchbox-size bat living in a 200-year-old old church is holding up plans to turn the property into six flats. The lone, ...

Not only do many bats die at wind turbines, the turbines also displace some species from their habitats over large areas. When the turbines are in operation at relatively high wind speeds, the ...

Bats are also infamous as carriers of deadly pathogens, a reputation which even bat enthusiasts admit is not entirely undeserved. “Bats are reservoirs for viruses that cause the highest case fatality ...

Bats are an important part of our environment and provide us with many benefits, including insect control and fertilizer. However, bat populations in the United States are being threatened by the ...

A fungus that causes white nose syndrome in bats has swept across the United States killing millions of bats a year. Some little brown bats have survived hibernation and began creeping out of their ...

Six new species of bat have been discovered in time for Halloween. The tube-nosed bats were identified in the protected forests of the Philippines by an international research team. They say the ...