Nearby Mount Rainier National Park also offers the easy 3.5-mile Naches Peak Loop, where the impressive Mount Rainier serves as a picture-perfect backdrop to the sub-alpine flower-filled meadows.

Plastic waste in the ocean has continued to be a topic of interest in the United States and globally. This plastic study will bring experts together to study the United States contributions to global ...

To the naked eye, the Asian longhorned tick isn’t much different than other ticks found in the United States: It too has eight legs, a round body, and mouthparts that latch onto its chosen host ...

There have been brief moments of reprieve in the drought that has stretched on since 2000 in the western United States—a water-rich 2011, a snow-laden 2019—but those breaks have only ...

The storming of the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters is unprecedented. But the building has seen its share of skirmishes. A gunman opened fire in the U.S. Capitol in 1995, killing two ...

According to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States ' (DISCUS) 2025 Annual Economic Briefing, sales of the popular agave-based spirit grew by 2 percent from 2023 to 2024, leaving the ...

The United States imports 90 percent of the seafood it consumes—from shrimp to salmon to crab. Across the globe, more than 50 percent of seafood comes from aquaculture.

A Ukrainian serviceman waits until a mortar attack is over on the front lines of eastern Ukraine as large military deployments are underway with Russia’s invasion. More than 40 Ukrainian ...

Once held by Great Britain, the United States extended its territory shortly after winning the War of Independence. It later expanded its claims to the Pacific and Latin America.

However, the United States and some other countries have resisted a formal, international delimitation of space, stating that it’s not necessary and that “no legal or practical problems have ...

Summer will officially begin with this year's solstice on June 20. And on Wednesday, June 11, comes a "strawberry moon," the last full moon of the Northern Hemisphere's spring. It will be at its ...