This famous urban greenspace is where the locals go to shrug off big city living and where the tourists go to see what all the fuss is about.

Mount Mitchell State Park, about 35 miles northeast of Asheville, North Carolina, is a place of superlatives. The namesake peak is the tallest east of the Missi

Visible from Puget Sound to the west, Mount Rainer looms above the Cascade Range at 14,410 feet above sea level. This peak of fire and ice — an active volcano

Gulf Islands National Seashore, the country’s largest national seashore, includes six barrier islands stretched out for 160 miles from Santa Rosa Island, Flor

Shenandoah National Park may be the world’s most beautiful highway right-of-way. This park in central Virginia stretches for 105 miles along the Blue Ridge Mo

The National Park of American Samoa isn’t the sort of place you visit on your way to some other destination. You have to really want to be here. It’s a 5 ½

There is more to Nevada than desert, hot nightclubs and garish, neon temples of gambling. Great Basin National Park, about 285 miles north of the Las Vegas Stri

This expansive park offers a peek at the wilder side of New York and New Jersey — from the plush woodlands, hundreds of animal species and even a nude beach.

You won’t find a home where the buffalo roam across this section of the Great Plains, but you will find 126 campsites at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. You

Towering granite walls, picturesque valleys carved by glaciers, jaw-dropping giant trees, waterfalls. It sounds like Yosemite National Park. Kings Canyon Nation

Rustic buildings scattered across this Iowa state park make the trails all the more worth forging.

Stephen C. Foster State Park gives access to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, likely the wildest 402,000 acres in the Southeast.

Wedged between Raleigh, Durham and Research Triangle Park is more than eight square miles of woods dotted with lakes and laced with streams and trails. William

You don’t have to travel to the Caribbean for a laid-back island experience. Burton Island State Park in Vermont provides a getaway for swimming and sunbathin

This South Dakota park delivers a dose of rugged beauty, from the namesake rocks to a classic prairie teeming with wildlife.

Here's how to get through the socially challenging times of coronavirus with grace, dignity and good health.

COVID-19 isn't just going to go away. Here's what we can expect next with testing, immunity and when flu and the coronavirus are both present.

WHO says "immunity passports" certifying that people are immune to the coronavirus are premature since we don't know if they will work.

A llama antibody that fights infections could help humans in the fight against the coronavirus.

Pest-killing spiders behave differently after exposure to a common insecticide, a new study finds.

Noting that bees are 'dying at alarming rates,' federal judges have rejected the EPA's approval of sulfoxaflor.

In "The Jefferson Grid," mesmerizing satellite images reveal the early land planning efforts of America's founding fathers.

Two decades after approving imidacloprid, the EPA is re-examining how it and similar pesticides affect bees.

Spiders eat several hundred million tons of insects per year, a new study finds, a global feast rivaling the yearly meat intake of humans.

The levels are reportedly safe for humans, but they're high enough to harm bees — and that's bad news for us, too.

With a little help from a famous seventh-generation orchardist, I narrow down some of the best varieties to plant for a backyard orchard.

Our love of avocados and guacamole is leaving Chilean villagers without water.

U.S. water usage is at a 45-year low, according to a new government report. But is that low enough?

British Prime Minister Theresa May is avocado toast after young people rise up to vote.

These kids see no reason to wait until they are older to make a difference in the world.

For a time, this cow was the sole inhabitant of her own private island in Poland. She swam there to avoid slaughter.

Here are eight young people who made an impressive mark on history and our world.

In 2013, Bush shaved his head in solidarity with a young toddler with leukemia.

Rob Greenfield is a hands-on activist who has participated in many high-profile environmental feats to raise awareness about people's impact on the planet.

These small-scale solar systems can bring communities impacted by the bushfires and flooding back online in as little as a day.

It’s not possible to avoid all delays, but you can put the odds in your favor.

Here are five of the most spectacular aircraft that flopped for a variety of reasons, including the Spruce Goose and a nuclear-powered plane.

Genetic tests are showing that individuals from Texas might breed with individuals from Japan or South America.

Jet lag dogs even the most frequent of flyers. Here's how to keep yourself well-rested and ready to take in the sights.

During the government shutdown, TSA workers need a little help, and local airports and travelers are stepping up to help

Three circus lions and a cub fly thousands of miles to their forever home in South Africa.

New research finds the traditional beer can flick does nothing at all for fizz.

This map helps you find the antipodes (the other side of the world) of any place on Earth.

A wave in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Cape Mendocino is one of the tallest waves ever recorded.

Until now, no one believed this kind of broad-spectrum cure for cancer was possible.

Researchers think they may have clues after looking at 60 impressions of sauropod tracks.

The groundbreaking quantum experiment could allow us to build things on the atomic level.

It might mean that spiders possess an extraordinary kind of consciousness.

Many amphibians are biofluorescent and researchers have several ideas why the trait evolved.

Bumblebees exposed to neonicotinoids grow up with permanent brain damage.