NZ Cricket sign Ferns stars to pro contracts

For the first time ever, NZ Cricket has provided four White Ferns with a cricket contract as part of an initiative to promote female cricket. White Ferns captain Suzie Bates and Ngāti Porou descendent Sara McGlashan are just a few who have received ...

Leading White Ferns player Amy Satterthwaite from Canterbury has turned down the offer of a semi-professional contract with New Zealand Cricket this year but may re-consider in the future. Satterthwaite, 26, who has been on the team since 2007 and ...

The White Ferns have named 26 players in their 2013 squad, as they look ahead to a busy summer of cricket including a home and away series against the West Indies and the ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh. The squad will take part in a number of ...

The White Ferns kickstart their women's Twenty20 World Cup cricket campaign with a series of training camps beginning

The US Fish and Wildlife Service confirms white-nose syndrome (WNS) is present at Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge in Alabama. This cave provides winter hibernation space for several bat species, including the largest documented wintering colony ...

By Laura Zuckerman April 8 (Reuters) - A fungus tied to a disease devastating hibernating bats in the United States has been found in an Alabama cave system critical to the survival of endangered gray bats, government scientists said on Monday.

Federal biologists on Monday confirmed the presence of a lethal fungus known as white-nose syndrome at Alabamas Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge, home of the largest wintering colony of endangered gray bats. With more than 1 million hibernating ...

The white mist on the peaks of the Taita Hills casts an invisible spell on everything that is beyond a few feet. We are on our way from Wundanyi to Ngangao, the largest forest tract in the area, for a picnic breakfast and I am crossing my fingers, ...

Corydalis ochroleuca, or yellow-white blooming corydalis, is a shade-loving perennial that begins blooming in spring and continues for months. By Gene Bush / March 15, 2013 at 3:43 pm EDT A few perennials in my garden have become backbones over the ...