Say you are in Johannesburg for business, and you are really tired of sitting in the dark during the inevitable South African load shedding....

By now, it’s quite clear that the American Thanksgiving holiday of 2020 – which falls next Thursday – will be quite unlike Thanksgiving in...

With about two-thirds of the United States on the verge of a dangerous heatwave, I’m hesitant to endorse any libation but shockingly cold ice...

At last, it’s spring in the northern half of the world. Birds are singing and migrating, freshets are running, and trees are budding –...

Twenty years ago, flocks consisting of a thousand European Turtle Doves were a common sight in Serbia. Ten years ago, those flocks were reduced...

The California Quail (Callipepla californica) is the California state bird, inhabiting scrub, broken chaparral and woodland edges primarily in California, Oregon, Washington and Baja California.  They are...