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Works by Hisako Hibi, Miné Okubo and Miki Hayakawa are featured in “Pictures of Belonging” at the Smithsonian American Art ...

This week’s weather captures the essence of spring, as sunshine and warmth clash with passing storms in a seasonal tug of war ...

Carolista Baum passionately fought to create Jockey’s Ridge State Park, an unusually biodiverse ecosystem of dunes, thickets ...

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"The Soul of Nature" is the first thorough survey of Caspar David Friedrich's career to be staged in the United States, and ...

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It’s my privilege to have a friend whose time in the military was spent as a meteorologist. He was responsible for studying and predicting short and long-term weather expectations.

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Being a morning person doesn't stop Judy Meyer from celebrating the night sky at McDonald Observatory, in Fort Davis.