Readers Share Their Offbeat Holiday Traditions
Families with holiday rituals are more likely to gather. So here’s to “Ribsgiving,” stinky gifts and fried oysters for Christmas…
Life After Death: America’s Cemeteries Are Rewilding
More burial sites are forgoing pristine lawns for drought resistant plants and wildflowers that help wildlife. Efforts picked up in…
Life After Death: America’s Cemeteries Are Rewilding
More burial sites are forgoing pristine lawns for drought resistant plants and wildflowers that help wildlife. Efforts picked up in…
Nursing Home Industry Wants Trump to Rescind Staffing Mandate
A Biden administration rule that imposed minimum rules on nursing levels may not survive, even though many homes lack enough…
She Was Scratching Her Arms Raw. Would Anything Stop This Itch?
The attacks came out of nowhere and brought life to a miserable standstill. And she had the scars to prove…
An Elegy for Crystal Cove A7, Our Family’s Piece of Paradise on St. Thomas
The setting for some of my most treasured childhood memories is a one-bedroom condo that stood 75 feet from a…
Killer Whales Hunt Whale Sharks and Feast on Their Livers
Whale sharks are gentle, filter-feeding giants, but orcas in Mexican waters were documented attacking the animals and devouring their livers.A…
Canada Accuses Google of Creating Advertising Tech Monopoly
The case largely echoes an antitrust action in the United States and seeks to force Google to sell off sections…
Footprints Suggest Different Human Relatives Lived Alongside One Another
A million and a half years ago, amid giant storks and the ancestors of antelopes, two extinct relatives of humans…
A Fossil Gets Its Name From the Eastern Shoshone Language
After scientists found an extinct burrowing amphibian on Eastern Shoshone land, members of the tribe gave it a name in…