Katherine Applegate, who also writes as K. A. Applegate, has authored more than one hundred books. While her publications include romances for the Harlequin line, she has aimed most of her writing at middle-grade readers, penning some titles for the popu...

The selling or buying of the Pearl land on the top of the hill overlooking deep, dark Hovey's pond should bring each Boxford resident to the question, "Who will be our neighbors when the land is gone?" When the land goes, Boxford's most beautiful...

China's agricultural production may not be able to keep pace with its population growth due to a number of complex problems. Aside from having unproductive land, the agricultural sector is burdened by the rapid loss of arable land and a large amount of soil...

Heavy sediment deposited in the Mississippi River delta in the last ice age has caused New Orleans to sink and will continue to drag down coastal Louisiana bit by bit for hundreds of years, according to a new study by NASA and Louisiana State University...

Service canals dug to tap oil and natural gas dart everywhere through the black mangrove shrubs, bird rushes and golden marsh. From the air, they look like a Pac-Man maze superimposed on an estuarine landscape 10 times the size of Grand Canyon National Park.There are...