We are coming into that perfect window of summer when the greenhead season is over and those of us who live near salt marshes can go outside again, the days are warm and breezy, the beach beckons.

I recently received an email from a reader describing a shell he found washed up on a wintery beach, something he grew up calling a ‘half deck’ - as in, he clarified, a boat. He had included a photo ...

Long before pollution, dams and dredging threatened freshwater mussels living in Indiana rivers and streams, the mollusks faced another devastating menace: Fashion. A nearly insatiable demand for ...