St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17 each year and will fall on a Monday in 2025. The tradition of drinking green beer is an American custom, not Irish. Green food coloring in beer is FDA ...

Kirstin Downey, a former Civil Beat reporter, is a regular contributing columnist specializing in history, culture and the arts, and the occasional political issue. A former Washington Post ...

London — The Monday collision between a cargo ship and an oil tanker in the North Sea "has a high risk of being an environmental disaster in really important protected areas," Naomi Tilley, Oil ...

Global sea ice cover hit a historic low in February as the world endured exceptional heat, with temperatures near the North Pole soaring 11 degrees Celsius above average, Europe's climate monitor ...