Fifty thousand years ago, North America's landscapes were alive with an astonishing array of enormous creatures. Massive woolly mammoths roamed vast icy plains, while dense forests echoed with the ...

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The Bald Eagle’s undeniable majesty has earned it longtime status as the mascot of the United States, but the bird also has some surprisingly quirky traits, like its dicey aerial courtship routine or ...

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Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...

As summer ushers in peak mosquito season, health and vector control officials are bracing for the possibility of another year ...

The Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 picked a nice day ...

In some of the earliest settlements in North America, specifically in Jamestown (in modern-day Virginia), and the Plymouth colony (in modern day Massachusetts), the original settlers that survived ...

The retail and infrastructure giant also is investing in bioplastics developments and recycling to address consumer packaging ...

A new book traces the environmental collapse of a crucial ecosystem and how its return could fight climate change.