This wildlife scene captures a Eurasian golden oriole perched near its nest, quietly observing its surroundings. The image ...

Hamilton, the zoologist who dedicated his life to saving Africa’s elephants from systematic slaughter—despite being nearly ...

The rise of the speakeasy in the US is upon us, and these bars can now be found virtually everywhere. Here is the best you can find, no matter where you are.

That’s exactly what happens when you visit Peninsula, Ohio – a tranquil village tucked away in the Cuyahoga Valley that somehow remains delightfully affordable and refreshingly uncrowded. It’s like ...

A Bellevue family donated its nearly 40-foot-tall blue spruce to the Green Bay Packers for the annual Festival of Lights. The tree was harvested and transported 10 miles to its place of honor on Bob ...

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 10 December) — Authorities here intercepted a motorized banca off Bagong Katilingban, Lower ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species causing destruction in the Florida Everglades. The snakes have contributed to the decline of several small mammal populations. Estimates place the Burmese ...

From Estonia to Antarctica, this once-pagan symbol has taken on many strange forms. In December 1848, an illustration showed Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children admiring a Christmas tree ...

The design of the distinctive green-tiled building, much-discussed on social media and even knitted into scarves, grew from one woman’s love of evergreens.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.’s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

Green chemistry involves the development of chemical products and processes that minimize the use and generation of hazardous and unwanted substances. Bisphenol A, a widely used polymer building block ...