but one species of pine tree easily withstands snow, ice, and wind without breaking: the limber pine (Pinus flexilis). Also known as the Rocky Mountain white pine, limber pines are native to the ...

On a sweltering spring day, workers at a Christmas tree factory in eastern China rhythmically assembled piles of branches, ...

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Victims and eyewitnesses described scenes of chaos and horror when militants killed 26 people in Kashmir as families, couples ...

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Spring snowshoeing is cheating.This is no terrible transgression, to be sure.Nothing that would lead to a prosecution.

For most people, the far north of Scandinavia is synonymous with Christmas – a twinkling, wintry wonderland of snow-smothered ...

Ashland resident Adam Doc Fox describes -- and shows -- a recent climb up and snowboard down from Mount St. Helens.

The annual migration usually happens at almost the same dates as other years, but with lousy weather two things happen. First of all, poor weather keeps us birders from getting out, and second, the ...

The Pine Barrens sit between Philadelphia to the west and the Atlantic coast to the east. The region, with its quick-draining sandy soil, is in peak forest fire season. The trees are still ...

In the midst of a dry winter, images of the California wildfires struck fear in the hearts of Arizonans. Some cities are more ...

After first noticing the pair building a nest on the east side of Tamarac Lake in February, staff expect to see hatchlings ...