In a world where war and disaster dominates headlines, the natural world survives and even thrives. AP photographers document it, often spotting beauty even while covering death and destruction.

It took more than 100 years, a few billion dollars and the cold, hard realization that you can't fight progress forever. And now, finally, college football has what the rest of sports have — a ...

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When I realized “Hummingbird Season,” a debut novel by Stephanie Lucianovic, is a story set in the time of COVID-19, I set the book aside for minute. I was not excited to relive those memories.

A jackhammer has a narrow focus on hobbies; all they can do is focus on one thing and happily lead their lives. The opposite of the jackhammer is a hummingbird—something that flits from flower to ...

A great blue heron takes a break from foraging at Neary Lagoon in Santa Cruz to groom. The great blue is the largest of the North American herons, according to Cornell University Lab of ...

A nonprofit invites people to get their hands dirty at an educational day of gardening at Castaways Park in Newport Beach on Sunday in support of hummingbirds, butterflies and other pollinator ...

Before peat moss, often called Sphagnum moss, entered the horticultural scene in the 1960s, commercial growers and homeowners would formulate their own media for plant propagation. This process of tri ...

MISSOULA, Montana: Hummingbirds zooming around the garden from flower to flower and sipping nectar probably don’t appear at first glance to be models for instruments of war. But the tiny ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel warms up before an NCAA college football game against Washington, Saturday ...

1 Oregon. The Ducks held the top spot for the seventh straight week. The shake-up creates two top-five matchups in conference championship games coming up on Saturday -- a day before the College ...