These new books showcase moments where embracing nature led to personal discoveries or scientific breakthroughs.

Henry Reid had “beasted” the Matterhorn, climbing it and descending again in just six hours, and wanted a new challenge. That ...

A year ago this week, a powerful hurricane being absorbed into a stubborn upper-level low-pressure system led to a catastrophic regional weather event in the Appalachians.

The polar vortex is stirring up, bringing the earliest hints that the weather is changing with the new fall season. When is the first frost in Tennessee?

The polar vortex is stirring up, bringing the earliest hints that the weather is changing with the new fall season. When is the first frost in Tennessee?

Maj. Per Scholander, a Swedish-born physiologist, biologist and botanist, mounted a rescue attempt that bought the survivors ...

Spending the night on the Greenland Ice Sheet, where the sun never sets and the ice never stops moving, is an adventure ...

This caught my attention. With all the fancy hip packs, sling bags, backpacks, and vests on the market, the one piece of gear every guide at the lodge agreed on was a simple pouch made by Yeti. The ...

When a threatened species rebounds, it’s usually an unequivocal conservation success. When it comes to Snow Geese and their ...

Church art is full of symbolism, and part of it is truly canonical, while another part is shaped by tradition and is ...

Robert Redford lived on Tiburon's Ridge Road in the late 1990s and early 2000s, returning to Mar East Street from 2020 to ...

Between a third and half of all soil carbon on Earth is stored in peatlands, says Tom and Marie Patton Distinguished Professor Joel Kostka. These wetlands—formed from layers and layers of decaying ...