As climate change and commercial fishing threaten krill, the crustaceans that fuel Antarctica’s entire food web, scientists ...

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, “addressed to the inhabitants of America,” was a 47-page dynamo presenting the recently ...

The annual event takes place in the Massachusetts town of New Bedford, which is where Herman Melville's celebrated 1851 novel ...

Giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao enjoy some bamboo at their newly renovated habitat at Smithsonian's National Zoo in ...

The high school where Brian De Palma brought Stephen King’s “Carrie” to life, Will Rogers’ ranch house, and a motel owned by ...

So far, only two of the four lynx have been recaptured, leaving authorities scrambling across the snowy woods to find the missing cats January 10, 2025 4:11 p.m. Researchers say a collected sample ...

Every January 1 in the Books department, we like to make an extra toast for a concurrent holiday: Public Domain Day.

Inspired by the public library's Seattle Reads program, our Grow writer asked a local expert: If everyone in our region could ...

January feels like a recovery month. After December’s frenzy, things have finally settled. The days are lengthening, but just ...

As a kid growing up in Portland, I couldn’t wait to go downtown. It had a large B. Dalton bookstore (the chain was liquidated ...