The founder of an impactful sea turtle rehabilitation center in North Carolina passed away early Tuesday morning. The Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center (KBSTRRC) shared on ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Matryoshka dolls are a Russian folk art tradition dating back over a ...

As a higher education professor, I’ve spent nearly two decades studying the rituals of the college-going process, including the transition from high school to college. Yet, no research article or ...

An empty nest is typically viewed as a moment in time when your child leaves home. In reality, it’s more of a verb—an ongoing process of “empty nesting.” The letting go begins in childhood, ...

Look closely at the gravel rooftops dotting Florida’s beachfront buildings and you just might see shiny, wire “chick fencing” outlining their perimeters. With a pair of binoculars, you may spot a few ...

The Army will review the use of selection boards to assess senior soldiers for command positions, officials said. In a memo Thursday, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll rescinded the official status ...

Look at that spot-chested young robin, hopping blithely across the lawn, stopping here and there as it searches for a meal. And take note of a young blue jay perched on a branch, gulping down a ...

Watch your step on the beaches near Jupiter: Loggerhead Marinelife Center is predicting that 2025 will be a top-three year for sea turtle nestings. So far this season, the nonprofit conservation ...

A colony of federally protected birds has divided a North Texas neighborhood, sparking complaints, confusion, and even allegations of illegal shootings. "It is chaos. There is poop everywhere," Gordon ...

DEAR JOAN: What is the right time to remove a nest from a nest box after the nestlings have fledged? I removed an abandoned nest last year that had four unhatched bluebird eggs. A new family built a ...

(WLUK) -- Wisconsin Public Service is introducing the community to a few of its newest peregrine falcon chicks. On Tuesday morning, WPS named and placed identification bands on three chicks that have ...

Newly discovered bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds have been breeding and nesting in the Arctic for at least 73 million years. “Which is kind of crazy, because it’s not easy to live in the ...