Class assignments involving students’ background—like charting family trees or drawing on their cultural traditions—have been a standby for generations. But tasks that call for extensive personal ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — As Kevin Baumgartner of Sioux Falls points out, there can be different reasons someone might pick a real Christmas tree over an artificial tree. Perhaps it’s the smell or ...

Floodwaters recede in parts of Snohomish County as cleanup efforts begin As the water starts to recede in some parts of Snohomish County, the cleanup is just getting started for many devastated by the ...

Motorcyclist killed in collision with dump truck on 10th Avenue in Palm Springs A man is dead after his motorcycle collided with a dump truck in Palm Springs on Saturday, according to a crash report ...

Click here for the original audio and to read a book excerpt. Though the late Jane Goodall was best known for her work with chimps, she also felt a deep personal connection to trees. In April 2014, ...

The Japan Imperial Family continues to shrink; as of October 2025, it only has 16 members, as women in the family lose their royal status should they marry a commoner. There are currently eight living ...

A hundred years ago, Maryland’s first state forester, Fred Besley, issued a challenge to residents: Go out in the woods and find the biggest tree you can. Then collect its measurements and send them ...

The giants of the Amazon are getting even bigger. A sweeping, new study has found the rainforest’s largest trees are not only holding their ground, but they’re thriving — growing, multiplying in ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...

Premiering today on Netflix is House of Guinness, which tells the story of one generation of the famous Guinness family: Arthur, Edward, Anne, and Benjamin. Their sibling relationship is at the heart ...