Check out this aerial view of downtown Rock Island, Illinois, during the chilly morning hours of Dec. 29, 2025.

When people think about habitats on Earth, they likely picture forests, oceans or grasslands. Few think to look up. Yet the lower atmosphere, or troposphere, may be the largest habitat on the planet.

THE HEAVENS — Seems like the Northern Lights have been making more appearances in Utah lately. I've gone up to the flight park at the Point of the Mountain on three different occasions since 2024. The ...

Madonna dined here. Twice. Country music’s The Mavericks and made-in-Miami grocer Milam’s Market got early starts at this corner front strip shopping plaza that’s been in the neighborhood bordering ...

It was dark and it was deadly, said US president Donald Trump when the US forces, in a brazen operation into the South American country, captured Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife from ...

Damaged Eyes is the title Sydney-based artist Irene Vides has given her moving portrait of Karen Bird, her entry for this year’s Archibald Prize.

A pygmy nuthatch snacks from a bird feeder outside the Santa Clara Valley Bird Alliance headquarters at McClellan Ranch Preserve in Cupertino on Sept. 19, 2025. Photo by Magali Gauthier. A dozen ...

As we move into mid-April, spring gobbler seasons are open in more than half of the states across the country. And in many of those states, gobblers are getting increasingly henned-up. But that ...