The chef of PBS’ long running “Ciao Italia” taught me to make this flavorful, seasonal salad that would be a perfect side dish for Thanksgiving.

Keep Thanksgiving from turning into a battle zone with these tips to help your picky eaters enjoy their holiday meals.

An age-by-age breakdown for teaching kids how to express their gratitude.

A messy winter storm is moving across the eastern half of the United States, threatening to delay holiday travel.

Pinterest is a great resource for recipee, and there’s an abundance of ideas to use up Thanksgiving leftovers on the addictive site.

With all that holiday food prep coming up, now may be the perfect time to teach the little ones some kitchen skills.

There is stuffing remaining from Christmas dinners sitting in refrigerators right now. Use it up in these breakfast recipes.

Make sure your knives are sharpened and spice rack is stocked so time in the kitchen this holiday season goes more smoothly.

Start planning your Thanksgiving wine selections by trying this sustainable rosé this weekend.

Warre’s Otima Tawny 10 Year Port will warm you up on a chilly evening.

Get a jump on Thanksgiving prep with these pro tips and avoid holiday meltdowns.

Give your kids another non-alcoholic cocktail option besides a Shirley Temple this holiday season.

Here's a big hint: If you must do this, move away from the house.

NYT and Google teamed up to find the most distinctive Thanksgiving dishes by state. Some of the more unusual ones have whipped topping in common.

These creative recipes will help you make something out of your leftover turkey besides soup or sandwiches.

Get ahead of the holidays by making and freezing unbaked and baked pies, crusts and filling before the rush.

Take Thanksgiving on the road this year and appreciate the different experiences these places have to offer.

Don't want to shop on Black Friday but not sure what else to do? Here are some ideas.

The 2017 Beaujolais Nouveau has just been released, fulfilling the destiny of many French gamay grapes.

Dorcas Reilly created the first green bean casserole recipe as an employee of Campbells in 1955.

The demise of megalodon coincided with the loss of a third of the largest marine animal species, scientists say.

Researchers trace back the origin of all flowering plants to a single ancestor using a sophisticated data crunch.

Ancient marine reptile sheds light on the origins of the distant relatives of modern crocodiles.

Learn about the natural world past and present at these outstanding museums

The finding indicates that life on Earth began much earlier than previously thought.

Surprising evidence linking Australia and Canada reminds us that our planet is a dynamic place.

A paper hypothesizes that some of our language skills evolved out of specific cave art features.

New genetic evidence shows that Solenodons survived the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

The extinct cave bear Ursus spelaeus appears to have descended from a vegetarian line of bears.

A new, highly speculative conjecture about the extinction of ancient humans is sure to raise critics' brows.

Fossil finders have ample opportunity to connect with experts through fossil ID days at museums, parks and universities.

The find confirms that America's earliest human inhabitants were here much sooner than previously thought.

Miners in Australia uncover the opal-filled fossil of a dog-size herbivore named Weewarrasaurus pobeni.

In A.D. 536, a volcanic eruption sent a thick haze into the air that blocked the sun over Europe, the Middle East and some of Asia for 18 months.

The bottom of the Pacific Ocean is actually cooling down. How is this possible? The answer is proof that Earth's systems operate on long timescales.

New research suggests it will take millions of years for extinct species to return to Earth.

8 strange and surprising facts about the T. rex, king of the dinosaurs.

Trying to stay cool while obeying his own stringent vehicle idling restrictions, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg enlists security detail to install a full

Arctic sea ice, the white cap that covers the watery northern edge of the planet, has melted back to a record low level.

Microbes possibly feeding on the remains of an ancient forest may be generating billions of tons of methane deep beneath Antarctic ice, a new study suggests.

The U.S. energy sector is 'in the midst of a transformation,' according to a new report, thanks to the growing use of natural gas and renewable power sources.

Good news from Antarctica: The hole in the ozone layer is shrinking, new measurements reveal.

Top polluters would pay $20 per ton of carbon emissions under the carbon tax plan, with 60 percent of the revenue returned to each U.S. resident.

Toyota has donated 4,500 free trees for this March's giveaway for New York City residents.

The Air Quality Egg was named one of Kickstarter's best projects of 2012.

Living near high-traffic roads accounts for 14% of all asthma cases, researchers find.

This much CO2 hasn't filled the planet's atmosphere since the Pliocene Epoch 3 million years ago — long before modern humans existed.

U.S. federal budget woes are shrinking the monitoring network that tracks greenhouse gases such as methane.

The Swedish home furnishings giant plans to offer 'lower carbon alternatives' to the signature pork and beef meatballs sold at its in-store cafes.

Even though Earth is already in an ice age, a surplus of ice is the least of our worries.