The Fox Valley Park District’s Red Oak Nature Center is set to get a new bike and pedestrian bridge over the Fox River. The steel bridge is expected to connect the two branches of the regional Fox ...

For most of the year, there’s nothing to see at Sycamore Falls. No trickle. No mist. Not so much as a hint that the tucked-away canyon in northern Arizona hides one of the most striking waterfalls in ...

Along a nine-mile stretch of river between two waterfalls in the Australian rainforest lives a tiny fish that’s been there for millions of years, hiding between rocks along the riverbank by day and ...

When a devastating Jan. 7 wildfire burned through the natural canyons above Altadena, land was charred and left denuded, but worse than that, the spring storm surge unloosed boulders and sediment that ...

Since 2025, tensions in the South China Sea have intensified, with the Scarborough Shoal (Huangyan Dao in Chinese) once again at the center of China–Philippines frictions. After the August 11 standoff ...

A Walk in the Park is an ongoing series from State Journal photographer Nick King, who intends to explore Lansing area parks one hour at a time. If you have a suggestion of a park he should visit, ...

A small gecko from South Africa went missing from science for more than three decades. It has been found again on the same mountain where it first turned up in 1991. The animal is the Blyde Rondavel ...

When Francois Roux, waded into the Blyde River in the Mpumulanga Province of South Africa last year, he expected to find spawning beds full of eggs from Lowveld large-scale and Bushveld small-scale ...

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Editor's note: This column was first published Aug. 11, 2017. It has been updated to adjust for inflation. Next time you’re stuck in traffic headed to Seattle, just remind yourself that things were a ...

Manila pushed back against China’s plans to create a national nature reserve at a disputed South China Sea maritime feature, a move officials say could increase the People’s Liberation Army’s foothold ...