Baylee Laine and her family. A 19-year-old softball player gave up a full university sports scholarship and worked two jobs while even sleeping in a legal office, all to gain custody of her four younger siblings after years of family instability. Baylee Laine, now 28, eventually legally adopted all four children when she was 21….

Four breeding seasons after a deadly bird flu outbreak forced a colony of Sandwich Terns to leave their nesting ground, the seabirds have returned in record numbers, creating one of England’s largest breeding sites. Monitoring reports published by Rare Bird Alert confirm that Sandwich Terns (Thalasseus sandvicensis) nested at RSPB Pagham Harbour in West Sussex…

The town was flooded as part of a massive water project in California but its legacy has been much harder to wash away. Beneath the waters of Lake Berryessa rests the ghost town of Monticello, preserved in fragments: its roads, foundations and historic bridge still visible beneath the surface while photographs and memories keep its…