The Tar Creek Superfund Site is among the most polluted landscapes in the country. Just Land repositions ongoing efforts to remediate toxic mining waste into repositories as the foundation for a ...

The Chicago psychedelic trio expands its cosmic, horizontally sprawling sound into a more songful direction—without losing the dazzling, hypnotic focus that makes its music so captivating. Save this ...

FLORENCE — A critically imperiled and rare plant species was found in a Florence County forest that’s set to open as a county park. Amorpha georgiana, or the Georgia false indigo, is a flowering plant ...

Technically lead plant is a shrub, but never gets larger than 3 feet, so it can act as a tall 30-inch perennial. Once a lead plant is established, it is long-lived, and heat and drought tolerant.

The general characteristics of many sphinx moths are similar, but, because over 70 species occur in Texas and Oklahoma, variation is to be expected. A few of the more unusual and rare sphinx moths ...

Like many art movements—among them Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism—Orphism wasn’t named by the artists creating the work, but rather by a critic. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire first saw Robert ...

A foggy winter afternoon in Archer Taylor Preserve's Far Meadow. (Guananí Gómez-Van Cortright) Amid an atmospheric river’s downpour, the soggy understory of the Archer Taylor Preserve’s Redwood Creek ...

Watch our report from before the flower bloomed: This rare flower that smells like 'rotten flesh' will bloom soon inside a Dexter home There was a stream of people, like Josh Tye, who came to Dexter ...

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