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Summer living is supposed to be easy — school is out, the days are long, the traffic eases. But it's not all diving boards and lemonade: Summer can throw us some curveballs, too. NPR kicks off its Summer Science series with tips from a fire scientist on how to build the perfect campfire.

NPR photographer John Poole took a vacation in New Zealand and brought back photographic souvenirs.

The man was as odd as his myth. Long-haired, barefoot and nature-loving, John Chapman traveled the Midwest in the early 1800s planting trees and creating orchards for future settlers.

New Zealand's bird of the year is not a bird. The long-tailed bat, or pekapeka-tou-roa, won by a wide margin.

A new exhibit opening Saturday at the American Museum of Natural History in New York puts the latest dinosaur discoveries on display. The ambitious project presents a vision of the world 130 million years ago, recreating how extinct creatures lived and moved.

Fighting along the Israel-Lebanon border has been punctuated Saturday by confrontations inside Lebanon between Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerillas. The ground combat came in addition to continuing Israeli bombardments of Lebanon, and Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.

Mount St. Helens continues a slow eruption that has the general public thinking about the drama and disaster of 1980. But geologists believe the volcano cannot create the same kind of damage this time around. NPR's Howard Berkes reports.

Homeland Security's inspector general criticizes a database of places designated by states as being vulnerable to terrorist attack. The list includes such apparently frivolous entries as an insect zoo and a popcorn factory. Indiana is listed as having 50 percent more critical assets than New York.

The Bengal cat is an attempt to preserve the image of a leopard in the body of a house cat: using a wild animal’s genes to get the appearance, while…

Officials from Northern Pass are complaining that opponents have used misleading elements in a new YouTube video about its plan to run power lines through…