Five Easy, Inexpensive Ways to Connect Your Kids With Nature

CARMEL, Ind. -- While many adults recall childhood summers of sunburned faces, grass-stained jeans and dirty fingernails, kids today have become so immersed in electronic media that a fishing pole is now ...

Outdoors: Losing your heads against fishing rules

Question: I was wondering if it's mandatory to have to give up my salmon heads when the volunteer fish checkers come around to measure my fish? I thought it was my choice. — Gary B

Region a hit for bird watching

The superlatives don't fly freely in the birding community, so when they roll one out for a short period in May, there must be a lot of wind beneath those wings.

The Learning Network Blog: Lesson | Backyard Science: Tallying Local Species to Learn About Diversity

Lesson | Students consider the diversity of species in a local area by conducting species tallies, documenting their findings with photographs and video, and constructing maps and photo galleries that summarize their results.

New Books Party: books received this week | @GrrlScientist

This week I tell you about Learning From the Octopus; Probability, Logic and several African bird field guides I sometimes receive books in the mail, as review copies from publishers, as gifts from far-away friends and as my personal purchases. Postage for shipping books internationally is not cheap so I think it's only fair to let you know which titles I've received this past week. Also ...