Environmental conditions migratory birds face in their first year may help determine where they breed for the rest of their lives, a factor that could significantly affect the population as climate change makes their winter habitats hotter and drier. The determining factor in where a bird settles for its first breeding season relative to its hatching site -- also known as natal dispersal -- was
Brent Pauling and Jared Mounger knew they were on to something good when they first conceived the idea of creating the North Texas Trophy Cats (NTTC) tournament trail.
Farmers have alot to worry about when it comes to planting their crops. Sarah Gustin tells us about some of the steps being taken to make sure those crops aren't bothered by any unwanted pests. It might not be the plant, but the bird that goes along wi
Picturesque mountains and waterfalls, blossoming trees, colorful birds and dancers in masks are not what people usually associate with the secretive state of North Korea.
You see can her, looking into the camera during an afternoon in the late 1960s. As Santa Cruz Sentinel reporter Peggy Townsend noted in a profile, Elizabeth Wiltsee was a slight woman, only 5 foot 1. In a home movie excerpted in the new documentary This Dust of Words , Wiltsee--blonde, slim, pensive--is seated on the porch of the long-since-bulldozed student housing known as Toad Hall on Bryant
SAN FRANCISCO †There have been more large, environmentally damaging sewage spills in the San Francisco Bay Area in the first two months of 2008 than in the last 7 1/2 months of last year, a San Francisco Chronicle analysis has found.
YUNOMINE, Wakayama Pref. †My brother wanted to create a new room in the loft of his house in an English provincial city, actually Kingston upon Hull (population 250,000), a place of passing interest Read more