Long before smartphones, weather radar, and seven-day forecasts, farmers looked to a much older source of information: the night sky.

Summer evenings are meant for backyard barbecues, gardening, and relaxing on the porch, not swatting mosquitoes. Sprays and chemical repellents...

Summer traditions in America shifted more between 1975 and 2005 than in any generation before. Air conditioning went from a...

Long before Doppler radar and satellite imagery, people read the natural world to forecast the weather: sky color, cloud shape,...

If you grew up calling them lightning bugs, you probably grew up south of the Mason-Dixon Line or in the...

There are mornings when you step outside and feel something has shifted before any forecast has said so. The air...

On some clear nights the moon looks like a high-resolution photograph: every crater sharp, every mountain shadow distinct. Other nights,...

As the chill of winter begins to loosen its grip and we edge closer to the promise of spring, one...

From the 2003 Farmers' Almanac | Animal tracking TIPS and TACTICS.By Stephen LeahyA freelance author located in Brooklin, Ontario. There...