Mother Natureâs Restless Sons
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Sean Penn finds a kindred spirit in the hero of âInto the Wild.â
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Dec. 17--Those who have spent more than a few years in North Carolina know well how seasonal changes as well as long-term growth have affected the environment in which we live.
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If it seems quiet in your back yard these days, it&#39;s probably because so many species of birds have flown the coop, bound south on their migratory journeys.
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It is unsettling evidence of oneâs own age and station in life to find that electronic music â once virgin territory for the young explorer â now includes within its ranks a small army of grand old men.
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Every so often, nature reminds humans why we once feared it. And once in a while, we remember in turn what makes us human. In the terrible wake of the tsunamis in Southeast Asia--so vast their counterparts
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Men have always slept around and new research suggests primitive man traveled far from home to do it. Scientists have been looking into ancient sexual dalliances and human migration patterns by virtue of the
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They weren&#39;t due to arrive until next January, but nature has a way of doing things on its own terms. Yesterday, &quot;Pretty Woman&quot; Julia Roberts gave birth to twins, a girl and a boy.
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Low maintenance topiaries in a menagerie of shapes can satisfy that urge to plant.
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âSteel Cityâ tells the story of a man and his sons, who struggle with personal and financial demons in a drab Midwestern town.
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METSIAMANONG, Botswana -- When Dahame Belese left the land of his ancestors, his parents felt as though he had fallen off the edge of the universe. They had no idea of the world outside, had never traveled by car or bicycle. They had not even climbed on a donkey's back.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Mar. 7--JEROME -- It takes a village to raise a child, they say.   In Magic Valley, it'll take a community -- and a native plant -- to save a dwindling species.
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As the men bumped away from camp in the four-wheel-drive pickup, over rutted dirt roads and through tiny streams, the sun revealed open plains around them, dotted with scrawny oak trees. Paul Tyjewski, Paul Royce and their guide, Kal Katzer, began glimpsing exotic wildlife gathering under the trees, using the cover of daybreak to feed before predators arose. Only, in this instance, the animals' instincts had failed them, since the predators were wide-eyed, eager and getting ever closer with their 7mm Remingtons. In one area, skittish kudu, African antelopes with twisting horns rising two feet out of their skulls, hopped from tree to tree. Nearby, aoudads -- massive versions of sheep from the Barbary rocks of North Africa, with horns curving out and back from their skulls -- playfully butted heads. Katzer pointed out ibex, exotic goats with thick, scaly horns.
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As this exhibition argues, the notion of an American landscape brimming with sacred sites is as much a cultural invention as an accident of nature.
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Constantly wearing a portable music player, such as an iPod, may be the next stage in evolution for some members of our species. But Mother Nature apparently does not approve.
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By Thomas Ryll, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep.
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By Story by RICK NATHANSON Illustration by CATHRYN CUNNINGHAM Of the Journal  At the beginning of the summer, people were facing tough choices about which plants they might be willing to let die during what seemed like a dry cycle with no end.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 15--From Bob Bendick, director of the Southern Region of The Nature Conservancy:   I flew across the South from New Orleans to Charlotte. While the people around me read papers and stared into computer screens, I looked out the window.