How did you get into photography? I tried being a normal person with a respectable career, but that got old really quickly. I started dabbling with underwater photography and within a few years I had ...

The Big Apple has gone from winter wonderland to poop-filled purgatory in the weeks since last month’s one-foot blanketing of snow — forcing New Yorkers to tip-toe through nasty minefields of ...

The dead fin whale that was discovered on an Oregon beach Feb. 7 was a subadult that recently moved on from its mother but was not yet fully grown, officials said Feb. 11. Portland State University ...

The first gray whale of the year has arrived “unseasonably early” in San Francisco Bay, experts from the Marine Mammal Center told SFGATE this week, raising questions over the species’ behavior and ...

Researchers in Turkey say they have unearthed archaeological evidence that the Romans used human feces in medical treatments. Although Roman texts described the practice, this is the first time that ...

A 46-foot fin whale that washed up on the Oregon coast on Saturday has been dead for “quite some time,” officials with the Seaside Aquarium said. The dead whale appeared on Sunset Beach, near ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A beached whale was found on the Oregon coast on Saturday morning. According to the Seaside Aquarium, the 46-foot fin whale washed ashore north of Sunset Beach Recreation Site ...

A dead fin whale was discovered on Sunset Beach near Warrenton on the Oregon Coast Feb. 7. Jim Riley, 65, of Tualatin, was beach combing just before dawn when he came across the carcass. There was an ...

One dead in fire at North Portland city-owned shelter – Someone may have died in a fire at a city-operated shelter on North Portland Road on Monday night, according to Portland Fire & Rescue.

Q: I read your article on trees splitting in the cold, and I thought you might like a photo from our tree near Rochester, Minn. This linden splits a little each winter but heals up in the spring. — ...