Gdańsk, Feb. 9, 2024 — It’s a frosty and foggy morning in my hometown on the Baltic coast of Poland. Everything is strangely quiet. Noises are stifled in the milky air. The only prominent sound is that of birds, chirping away. But the calm is about to end. Farmers from multiple surrounding regions have come […]

Thousands of out-of-town football fans started arriving in Houston over the weekend to attend today’s game between the University of Michigan Wolverines and the University of Washington Huskies. The College Football Playoff National Championship is at stake. Although neither team is from Texas, Houston is rolling out the red carpet for fans. The city knows […]

A ghost materialized in California’s Central Valley last winter. Its appearance in this vast farming district was reported by major news outlets around the country, with photojournalists trekking across fields and right up to the edge of a large body of water to take pictures. The images they published did not show a filmy creature […]

On a warm, sunny July afternoon, a bright yellow excavator sat idle where a housing development will be built in North Seattle. Growing behind it is a Western Red Cedar estimated to be 200 years old.  With a double trunk, this special tree could be part of an ancient system that indigenous people used to […]