It has been found out that staff and patients at a Japanese hospital accidentally drank toilet water instead of drinking water for almost 30 years ...

After decades on the wish list, long-sought improvements at Volo Bog State Natural Area in Ingleside have been funded and are ...

The idea of touring a rural swamp may not exactly have the ring of a day at the beach or a woodland hike, but a site nearby ...

IF you’re looking for a wintery walk that gives you the perfect opportunity to enjoy the slow waking of spring with plenty of bare trees for bird spotting, is adaptable for little legs and big legs ...

By the 2080s, climate change will mean most of Britain’s peatlands could be too dry to form new peat. That’s the stark ...

During the Bay Area’s damp winters, we can’t afford to be fair-weather hikers. Fortunately, some hikes in the Bay Area are ...

Thank you, Kathy Fackler for your column, “The Inflation Reduction Act invests in energy, water, and rural America,” (Herald, ...

Illinois officials announced $60 million in funding for improvement projects at five parks and historic sites, with the lion's share being funneled to Starved Rock.

A small kitchen fire left nine people displaced Sunday in the Conway area, an Horry County Fire Rescue Facebook post said.

The Burns Bog Ecological Conservancy Area is owned by Delta, Metro Vancouver and the province. The adjacent Delta Nature ...

It was sometimes referred to as a bayou, but most often as a "slough." Whatever you called the waterway into the Fox River, ...

Peat is a nonrenewable resource because it is being consumed much faster than it can be produced; a bog regrows at a rate of ...