Paul Vriend's photo of a beaver swimming at Jackson Park leads the notes package from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

Eurasian beavers were once hunted to near extinction but have seen a resurgence in recent decades across the continent, according to National Geographic.

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

Three locomotives and six train cars from Canadian Pacific Kansas City derailed in Sandwich Academy Grant Township on April ...