Garth Greenwell’s “Small Rain,” in which a poet falls ill and confronts mortality, the meaning of art and the failures of health care, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction on Monday.

Islanders are all well versed in the meaning of “Juneuary” — used to describe an unseasonably cold summer day on Vashon. But ...

Find home in another’s shed? And not in winter cold?

World Poetry Day is observed annually on March 21 to pay tribute to poets. It also aims to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. Poetry is a form of art and culture.

South Australia's west has experienced some of the highest rainfall in the past 24 hours, bringing welcome relief for farmers in Streaky Bay. Rainfall for the Adelaide area ranged from 5-10mm ...

After the snow, hail and rain the state has seen over the last week, the least Iowans could have is a clean car from all of the precipitation. Think again. Many Iowans likely woke up to a film of ...

The “blood rain” that turned an Iranian island’s coastline crimson last week was due to the local soil containing high concentrations of oxidised iron, experts said. Social media footage ...

The British sunk their claws into Hong Kong in stages. In 1842 they colonised Hong Kong island; 1860 saw the seizure of the Kowloon peninsula, and in 1898, the British took out a 99-year lease on ...

The phenomenon on Hormuz Island was captured in viral videos amassing tens of millions of views, showing torrential rain washing crimson soil from the island’s mountains into the ocean.

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Formula 1's season-opening Australian Grand Prix early on Sunday morning is strongly forecast to be hit by rain and create conditions one team boss suspects could provide first-race "chaos".

Decades ago, acid rain was one of the world’s most alarming environmental crises. Pollution from coal power plants and cars made rainfall so toxic that it killed fish, wiped out forests ...