They dive as deep as 30 metres to collect abalone, shells and agar-agar.After World War II there were 6109 ama divers in the area; today about 1300 still live and work in the region."Young women don't ...

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

April 26, 2025 • There's still a lot of need in Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood, where Freddie Gray lived. People from the neighborhood work to meet it.

It's one of the park's most popular hikes and starts tame with the one-mile Riverside Walk, a wheelchair-accessible hike. After that, hikers will get wet since the trail disappears into the Virgin ...

The Supreme Court case on ‘LGBTQ-inclusive’ books shows how unfair he was. Donald Trump’s executive order ends the executive branch’s role in rewriting the law and promoting discrimination ...

The President’s Wife shows how to defend a first lady. Mildly obscene fakelore turns the blues into horror-movie trash. The masterly second installment of Wolf Hall retails permanent lessons in ...

Kokichi Mikimoto, known as the pearl king, launched the Japanese pearl industry when he successfully created the world’s first pearl culturing island. On the island, you can learn about how pearls are ...

America’s loss of dominance in mining to China was not inevitable—nor is its renewal. President Trump’s recent executive order, Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production, se ...

April 25, 2025 • Whether a "chainsaw," per Elon Musk, or "scalpel," as President Trump has said — the Trump administration is making deep cuts to the federal government within its first 100 days.