Rain came one evening to soften the afternoon heat. I sat outside on my back steps watching the clouds grow ever fuller, swelling like gray balloons until they finally burst, spilling out across the ...

From a visitor from England who visited Calgary on the way to Juneau, I learned about the Banff Springs snails, which live in thermal springs with temperatures up to just over a hundred degrees ...

The Kings River pyrg is being considered for threatened or endangered species status, and the mine site at Thacker Pass in Northern Nevada is the only place in the world where the snails live.