Maggie Koerth is a contributing columnist for the Minnesota Star Tribune focusing on nature in Minnesota's urban areas. She ...

A coalition of conservation groups and Native American tribal citizens on Friday called on President Joe Biden to designate ...

Indigenous North Americans spread peaches after explorers introduced them. They developed unique varieties and cultivated ...

Researchers from the University of Derby say that the break-up of the European and North American continents is still ongoing ... which connects the Labrador Sea in the south with Baffin Bay to the ...

Spanish explorers may have brought the first peach pits to North America, but Indigenous communities helped the ubiquitous summer fruit really take root, according to a new study.

The state’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a sweeping bill that would erode the power of the Democratic governor ...

Here’s another way to look at why Republicans swept the 2024 elections: It’s the fault, only partly, of course, of the gerontocracy of the Democratic Party. Going back through history, ...