A dark laundry building in Yosemite underscores who helped build this national park and the National Park System — and the ...

Japan’s biggest island is home to so many of the country’s popular highlights that the classic tour has become known as Japan ...

The hollowed-out trunk of the ancient yellow cedar felt like a cocoon with its soft floor of bark strips. A mother bear had molded this bed when she came each year to hibernate and to birth her cubs ...

Getting to zero carbon emissions won’t save the world. We’ll have to also remove carbon from the air—a massive undertaking unlike anything we’ve ever done. Scientists monitor a mesocosm—an ...

The U.S. Surgeon General has called for adding cancer warnings to alcohol labels—as scientific evidence mounts that even moderate drinking may be more harmful than we thought. A glass of red wine a ...

To create these landscapes, Wilkes found a vantage point and photographed all day and all night. He then chose a number of photos to merge digitally into a composite image to tell a story about a ...

In the country’s Yoshino forests, cedar and cypress have been tended for generations, offering an unmatched setting to ...

Zitkála-Šá was eight years old when the missionaries came. Lured from the South Dakota Yankton Indian Reservation with promises of adventure, comfort, and an education, in 1884 the girl went willingly ...

TikTok—specifically #witchtok—is fueling interest in paganism. Here’s how to immerse yourself in full moon rituals, spellcasting, and more. The Ivana Kupala festival, in Kyiv, Ukraine, is part of an ...

Mounting evidence shows that many of today’s whole foods aren't as packed with vitamins and nutrients as they were 70 years ago, potentially putting people's health at risk. Vegetables like this ...

A plastic bag, a dirty pizza box, plastic utensils, paper napkins, and a soda can—a single takeout meal can feel like a game of recycling trivia. Which items can be recycled? What kinds of plastic go ...

A Blur concert sells out in two minutes, while The Cure’s tour breaks attendance records. McDonald’s commercials star Grimace. Mission Impossible thrills at the box office. What year is it? you ask.