After a short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow ...

Gold mining in the Amazon removes so much water from the ground that it's too hot and dry for seedlings to survive.

The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.

Texas lawmakers are considering a bill to resuscitate the state’s nuclear power industry through a taxpayer-funded incentives program. State Rep. Cody Harris, a Republican from Palestine in East ...