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You don't have to live in the Great Bear Rainforest to benefit from its existence, but after you read Nowhere Else on Earth you might want to visit this magnificent part of the planet.

The month of Ramadan offers the opportunity to improve one's personal and spiritual behavior.

All the food you eat, whether it's an apple or a steak or a chocolate-coated cricket, has a story.

Earthquakes are a terrifying yet fascinating force of nature. Seismologist Johanna Wagstaffe takes you through her own journey of understanding the earth beneath our feet.

Inspired by memories of fantastic family birthday parties, mother-and-daughter team Nikki Tate and Dani Tate-Stratton researched the history of birthdays in order to answer such questions as, How m

From its beginnings as a farming celebration marking the end of winter to its current role as a global party featuring good food, lots of gifts and public parades, Chinese New Year is a snapshot of

Kids all over the world help collect seeds, weed gardens, milk goats and herd ducks.

Pedal It!

Until a few hundred years ago, people were embarrassed to buy bread in a store. Families took pride in making almost everything they owned.

Humans have always generated garbage, whether it’s a chewed-on bone or a broken cell phone.

During Diwali, Hindus, Sikhs and Jains celebrate the legends and stories that describe the triumph of good over evil and justice over oppression.

The Sea Wolves sets out to disprove the notion of "the Big Bad Wolf," especially as it is applied to coastal wolves, a unique strain of wolf that lives in the rainforest along the Pacific coast of

Extensively illustrated with Ian McAllister's magnificent photographs, The Salmon Bears explores the delicate balance that exists between the grizzly, black and spirit bears and their natural envir

When we think of wild animals, we don't immediately associate them with the cities we live in.

At an after-school program, a teacher named Stephen and a group of kids push together tables piled high with books so they can reimagine Don Quixote, the story of an idealistic dreamer from Spain w