Washington state poet laureate Derek Sheffield has some advice: “More sky time instead of screen time.” As a naturalist and poet, Sheffield constantly explores relationship to nature through his work, ...

Linden Avenue Middle School students honored Earth Day on Friday, April 24, with an outdoor art exhibit of print work, zentangle art and blackout poetry. Crowds of students, friends, and families ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a 1,600-year-old mummy. Tucked within its abdomen was a well-known book -- a ...

A movie that seems to have been made to entertain children without disturbing them, which surely wasn't George Orwell's point ...

We asked ten literary experts to recommend the climate poem that has spoken to them most powerfully. Their answers span over ...

British poet laureate Simon Armitage has met schoolchildren at London Zoo, where he recited the new poem he has written to ...

The surprising escapes from near-death situations of beetles and other small animals illustrate how both prey and predators can adapt to challenges over time. Regimbartia attenuata beetles have the ...

The Caspian Sea is the largest saltwater lake in the world, stretching for about 1,200 km from north to south. It covers a gross area of about 38,6400 km and the surface is about 89 feet below sea ...

Given my long-term interest in the broad topic of animal sentience, I'm always looking for new ways to express what science and other sorts of inquiries are telling us about animal consciousness and ...