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Scientists from the U.S. and Canada are creating the first systematic baseline of winter conditions on the Great Lakes — providing important clues about how climate is affecting lake ecosystems.

In her new memoir, author and journalist Beth Macy returns to her hometown of Urbana, Ohio to learn how it changed from a stable working- and middle-class community to a town struggling with poverty.

A tiny bird called the Florida grasshopper sparrow is on the brink of extinction. Fewer than 150 are believed to remain in the wild.

A Delta spokeswoman said a bird is the likely culprit for the caved-in nose of the plane, although crews are still investigating.

Poet Jack Perletsky offers his own thoughts about a special breed of bird: The Flying Hot Dog.

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne diseases.

Commentator Nick Gillespie says all the concern this week about the marketing of violence flies in the face of reports showing a decline in violent crime by youth and a decline in birthrates among teens. If rap music, TV and movies are such a danger to our kids, Gillespie asks, then how can their behavior be improving?

The importance of religion in the lives of Americans is on the decline. That's according to a new report from the Public Religion Research Institute.

But in a mixed ruling, federal Judge Michael Farbiarz declined, for now, to order Khalil released from immigration detention.

Crawfish frog numbers are on decline due to habitat loss. But scientists in Indiana are working to return species to a historic site.

Some historically Black colleges and universities have seen increases in application and enrollment numbers after years of decline.

The use of corporal punishment is on the decline, but at one high school in N.C., the principal paddles his students himself.

We remember bird watcher Roger Tory Petersn who died last night in his sleep at the age of 87.

It was a big night for the films Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and Lady Bird, and the television miniseries Big Little Lies.

Tourists' absence from the ancient city has made way for the cats, dogs, birds and other creatures to take over.

Why that unassuming museum art — which you'll find behind taxidermic bison and birds — deserves a closer look.

Wild turkeys are roaming the streets of Massachusetts towns, even parts of Boston. The birds get up to 4 feet tall, weigh 20 pounds — and they bite. Pierre Verrier, an Animal Control officer in Brookline, Mass., advises residents to stay away from the birds — or "try to hit the turkey with your purse or something."

Alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, nicknamed "the New Bird" for his ability to play fast leads a la Charlie "Bird" Parker, swept on the jazz scene in the mid-1950s. On Somethin' Else, Adderley teamed with Miles Davis to create an album that jazz commentator Murray Horwitz calls "near perfect."

British author Martin Jacques witnessed the decline of the British Empire over his lifetime. He predicts that Americans will have a similar experience as the power of the United States declines in the coming years, yielding to an ever more powerful China. He discusses his new book, When China Rules the World.

Our Early Bird Fishing guide Jeff Sundin talks to John Bauer and Heidi Holtan on the Thursday Morning Show. He lets us know where the sucker's are running…