Many of our native rodents are quietly creeping towards extinction, but a pookila breeding project in metropolitan Melbourne ...

Jim Whittaker died Tuesday in Port Townsend. The legendary Washington mountaineer made history in 1963 as the first American ...

Jim Whittaker, a Seattle-born and -raised mountaineer who achieved legendary status when he became the first American to summit the world’s tallest peak in 1963, died Tuesday in ...

Jim Whittaker, a Seattle born and raised mountaineer who achieved legendary status when he became the first American to ...

Trump administration targets CON laws, pressuring states like Tennessee to repeal them for Rural Health Transformation funding.

Certificate-of-need laws—originally designed to prevent the duplication of healthcare services in a specific geographic region—may be on the chopping block for many states as a condition of the ...

The 2026 World Press Photo Contest documents our fragility, resiliency, and the best and worst of humanity. More than 3,700 ...

The world’s forests are simultaneously climate powerhouses and victims, sucking carbon from the air while facing myriad global warming impacts—from wildfires to pest outbreaks. Recent research found ...

Whittaker took up climbing as a Boy Scout, and his ascent of the world’s highest mountain turned the shy Seattle man into an ...

These strange Arkansas town names are real, and each one has a story. Take a look at the places that will make you question ...

For decades, Glaciar Perito Moreno stood out as a stubborn exception. While neighboring ice masses in Patagonia shrank year ...

How NASA is using laser communications to stream live video from the Moon on Artemis II — the real specs, the video chain, ...