Hawaii’s Big Island is known for many things — its rich culture, active volcanoes, black sand beaches, green rainforests, and of course year-round warm, humid, weather. This yea...

Though most of you are probably well into your summer break, the season does not officially begin until June 20. Called summer solstice, it is the day when the North Pole is mos...

Every ocean lover knows the perils of getting caught in a rip current. It is relatively easy to escape the narrow channel of fast moving water by floating and allowing it to dra...

Some fortunate visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden recently witnessed the rare opening of not one, but two, titan arums. Better known as corpse flowers due to their pungent o...

Every winter, hundreds of humpback whales migrate long distances from their high latitude feeding grounds in the Arctic and Antarctic to warmer tropical regions to breed and giv...