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Life Lessons from the toughest, hardest, foulest-mouthed children’s author on earth. *Parental guidance suggested.

When a young woman is killed by coyotes on a busy trail in broad daylight, how worried should we be?

Sustainable-food guru Michael Pollan is back—this time, with a plan. Sort of.

Exploring the back of beyond in Bolivia's Parque Nacional Noel Kempff Mercado

An assault by Frodo, one of Jane Goodall's big-screen chimps, results in the death of an African child

The Pacific Rim's most explosive endurance sport combines speed, pain, and ancient tradition

Along the 43rd parallel in North America, raising pumpkins isn't just a sleepy backyard pursuit—it's an extreme sport. And nowhere are the stakes higher, or the intrigues thicker, than at the annual weigh-off of the World Pumpkin Confederation, the Olympics of garden-patch gigantism.

Partners of witches? Souls of the dead? Suckers of blood? Knee-deep in guano in a rank Texas cave with the man who knows the shocking truth about bats