As summer approaches, millions of Americans begin planning or taking trips to state and national parks, seeking to explore ...

Of the Kiks.adi Clan of Sitka, Ixt’Ik’Eesh has been harvesting herring fish eggs for most of his life. His earliest ...

Its long and layered past, intertwined with its role as a major port, has inevitably given rise to a collection of intriguing ...

Enlarging the Shasta Dam would deliver more Sacramento River water to Central Valley farmers, but the Winnemem Wintu tribe ...

As gold prices soar to record highs resulting from global economic jitters, hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars’ worth of gold are circulating through the doors of the St. Vincent ...

"Fishes of the Chicago Region," a guide to fishes of the Chicago region by Francis Veraldi, Stephen Pescitelli and Philip Willink (University of Chicago Press), will be formally released on June 3. It ...

Predictions we rely on for essential forewarning about extreme weather come from the National Weather Service, a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA data is also essent ...

Tracing back the history of cult comedies, few films have challenged the rules of narrative, and laws of physics like David Wain’s Wet Hot American Summer (2001).

The Arctic landscape during the Cretaceous Period may have been dominated by the dinosaurs, but the rivers and streams held something more familiar. Alaska's fresh waters 73 million years ago were ...

A 1970 photo taken by John P. Filo, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Kent State University journalism student who would go on to ...

He will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Leo is the first pope to have been born in the United States. He is also a citizen of Peru, ...

Cats are such a prominent part of American culture today that it’s hard to imagine the country without them. But our feline friends arrived on our shores more recently than you may assume. As ...