Tiny, mighty, jewel-toned hummingbirds are almost to Michigan. Hummingbird Central keeps a map of spring migration sightings as they fly north from January to May. As of Friday, April 18, ...

Michiganders can also keep an eye out for five rare visitors, according to avibirds.com: Hummingbirds prepare for the lengthy, solo migration by gaining 25-40% of their body weight, according to ...

The closest place to Rhode Island to witness the emergence of periodical cicadas is Cape Cod, where Brood XIV is expected to ...

Even their scientific name, Magicicada, seems to hint at the extraordinary ways of insects that are found nowhere else in the world except eastern North America ... a colored map of the different ...

There’s a place in the Florida Panhandle that feels like it was accidentally transplanted from the Appalachian foothills, a ...

Merchants Millpond State Park in Gatesville is that rare destination that makes you question whether you’ve somehow slipped through a crack in reality. And yet, despite spanning an impressive 3,520 ...

There are many great things to do in Hot Springs, Arkansas on family vacation from visiting the national park to mining for ...

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

More than 22% of native pollinators in North America are at an elevated risk of extinction, the research found. Researchers blame habitat loss, pesticide use and climate change for the problem.