Tisa and Kumi are both carrying calves fathered by Mapenzi, the last giraffe born at the Melbourne zoo.

A bald eagle was seen over the Bronx this week, another sign the birds are becoming regulars along the borough's waterways.

Beachgoers at Wrights Beach caught whales feeding just offshore as a heat advisory sent crowds to the Sonoma Coast.

Crews began tearing out the wobbly wooden dock right after Labor Day, with boaters using a temporary south-side loading spot.

Free events run September 28 through October 2, from Crum Woods mushroom walks to a Björk-narrated fungi film screening.

Gov. Healey says cleaner water will cut rainfall closures by more than half for North Shore shellfishers.

Heron's Key residents raised $750,000 over seven years to pave a path around two retention ponds in Gig Harbor.

Greenville Water crews found the rare roundleaf sundew thriving in bog soil near Table Rock, a sign the watershed is bouncing back.

A roadkill armadillo near Miami University could mark Ohio’s first natural occurrence, researchers say. It’s now preserved for study at the campus museum.

A $700,000 federal grant will turn a vacant lot next to Crawford W. Long Middle School into a park students help design themselves.

September events from Eugene to the coast spotlight a decades-long effort to bring otters back after fur traders wiped them out.

A century of wooden steps, WWII radar bunkers and landslides later, Oceanside's cliffside path to Short Beach has a brand-new staircase.

Caroline's Flower Fields runs through October 4, with live music, honey vendors, and food trucks rotating in on fall weekends.