The silent season is drawing to a close. All winter, there was little birdsong to lift my heart. The occasional caw of a crow, the chickadee-dee-dee of a chickadee, the big song of the little Carolina wren that now stays on our Pennsylvania farm all winter. But no courtship call of great horned owls, no…
The parents of Sudiksha Konanki, the 20-year-old college student who went missing during a spring break trip to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, said they had come to terms with the possibility she had drowned, and asked for privacy to mourn her, according to officials and a statement to the media on Tuesday. Their sorrowful statement…
Daylight is adding up, about three minutes more each day as March progresses, give or take. Tomorrow, we bank a full hour at once: Change your clocks, change your smoke detector batteries, start planning menus around tender lettuces. Spring hasn’t arrived yet, but her plane’s definitely left the ground. I call this time of year…
DEHRADUN: As Jan gave way to Feb, India found itself in what meteorologists describe as an “early spring-like” phase, the product of prolonged dry weather and unseasonably high temperatures. According to IMD, Jan 2024 was the third-warmest on record, with average mean temperature of 18.9°C, and the fourth-driest since 1901, making it one of the…