While hiking near Big Bend Ranch State Park's Contrabando Trail, something Michael Alvard had never seen before caught his ...

A Texas hiker who stumbles on a once-in-a-lifetime rare cactus in the desert is not just finding a botanical curiosity, but ...

ONE AFTERNOON in the spring of the year 1910, Ben Lilly with five of his dogs swung off the caboose of a freight train at the ...

Take a hike, sit on a beach or hang out in your own backyard to experience sights, sounds and smells of life and activity in the outdoors.

In the high desert of eastern Utah, the earth seems to have forgotten the rules of geology. Here, the landscape is a riot of ...

Kate Hudson shares a tearful moment after earning her second Oscar nomination, celebrating with Goldie Hawn and family in a ...

That’s exactly what awaits at Makoshika State Park in Glendive, Montana – a geological masterpiece that somehow remains one of the state’s best-kept secrets. Montana’s largest state park is hosting an ...

A rare Michigan flower is “living its best life” right now as other plants slumber the winter away. Yellow fumewort grows in ...

The rare yellow fumewort thrives amid Michigan winter when other plants are long gone. But due to its threatened status, you ...

The orchid is said to be the most exotic of all flowers. Their fragile beauty has made them a favorite corsage flower.

Yellow fumewort, a rare annual native to the U.S., grows in southwest Michigan and is at risk. What makes the plant unusual.

Edible cacti, especially Opuntia cladodes, show consistent short-term benefits for postprandial blood glucose and modest improvements in lipid biomarkers, largely driven by soluble fiber and bioactive ...