Some of the Amazon rainforest’s remotest reaches lie not in Brazil, but in Ecuador. A weeklong river cruise reveals the creatures, plants, and people that define this extraordinary region.

Sometimes paradise isn’t a plane ride away—it’s hiding in plain sight in northwest Ohio, where Harrison Lake State Park spreads its 142 acres of natural splendor across Fulton County like nature’s own ...

He said the animal began denning beneath his home around Thanksgiving, twisting gas lines and toppling bricks as he came and ...