Dateless family portraits painted in shiny, wet oils. Tense, posed family photos — bodies frozen in a porcelain perfection — taken with bright smiles after a terse bark from dad. If you take each person and fold them forward like they were made of nothing but flimsy paper — a ...
WASHINGTON — Parasitic illness cases linked to recalled iceberg lettuce have now been confirmed in 20 states, federal health officials said Thursday, expanding the scope of the largest outbreak of its kind in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration said government scientists have now ...
WASHINGTON — A new study suggests that El Ninos — the natural climatic chaos agent that pops up periodically and spikes global temperatures — are getting stronger because of human-caused climate change. El Ninos are more than 36% stronger than they were before the industrial age began in the mid 1800s, with a 16% jump in just the last 40 years showing that the increase is accelerating, according to a study in Thursday's journal Science. The findings come as a strong El Nino that formed a couple months ago is forecast to be the biggest on record in coming months. El Ninos, which ...
CHICAGO — A beluga whale died days after it was transported hundreds of miles to a Chicago aquarium from a shuttered Ontario park as part of an ongoing effort to rescue Canada's last captive whales. The whale, a 23-year-old female named Peekachu, died suddenly Tuesday as caretakers tried ...
Have you ever wondered about the log cabin that is in Jackson Park, known as Old Town, in Negaunee? When homeowners Ben and Anna Noskey wanted to tear down the little house that sat in their backyard on Hungerford Avenue to make room for a garage, they didn’t expect to find a piece of ...
U.S. hurricane season is gearing up. And from Amanda and Boris onward, tropical cyclones' names in the Pacific region are unfolding quickly. But why the monikers each year? Or at all? Humans have given names to the world around them for almost as long as language itself has existed, but ...
