Feb 1 2006

Every year, more than a hundred million monarch butterflies in the U.S. and Canada go south for the winter, flying more than ninety miles a day for up to 3,000 miles. Monarchs ...

Mar 1 2004

A John Deere dealer by trade, Ernie Ropp started hosting tractor pulls in the vast fields of southeastern Iowa in the 1970s.These events commanded crowds, and in 1977 Ropp ...

Jan 1 2004

On August 27th Mars veered closer to Earth than it has, or will again, for 66,000 years. The glittering, reddish-orange planet is still the brightest natural object in the ...