In California’s boom-and-bust climate, Death Valley has offered some of the strangest scenes over the past few years. Some of the area’s perennial creosote bushes died back during a severe ...

MARANA — They peered into buckets of water, all of them down on all fours under the shade of a tall salt-cedar tree ... lessons and bring new hands-on science teaching to the classroom.

Earlier this month, we set sail aboard the AJ Meerwald—New Jersey’s official tall ship—for a powerful three-day journey ...

This grew into a protruding filament “14 Earths tall”, according to McCarthy ... The image above is a further close-up of the main picture. “Solar photography is an exercise in discipline ...