The front row at Amiri included Maluma, Octavia Spencer and Quavo, but all eyes were on Mike Amiri’s parents, attending their first Paris Fashion Week. Iranian immigrants who moved to Los Angeles ...

It’s black fly season in the Adirondack North Country. They’re out in full force in the central Adirondacks, where I recently went camping. But once the sun sets and the temperature drops, the evening ...

Woodland phlox are blooming, robins are nest building, thermometers are fluctuating and spring peepers are singing their chorus in marshy woods, swamps, ponds and ditches. These tiny tree frogs ...

Follow the cacophony of frogs — spring peepers, wood frogs and boreal chorus frogs — into the woods and you’ll likely find a small pond created by snowmelt and rainwater. These seasonal pools, often ...

You've read 5 stories this month. Support the CT Mirror reporting you rely on. Across the eastern United States, and stretching into Canada, residents know it’s spring when they hear the chirp of the ...

On a Tuesday night in April, beneath a sky mottled with clouds, a slick stretch of road in Cumberland, Maine, erupted in sound. It started with a few high-pitched chirps, like the coos of chicks.

Every day as we advance toward May, the wetlands around our region’s lakes play a symphony of songs that enchant those of us who love our outdoors. Springtime music fills the air around Mosquito, ...

There’s a sure sign that spring is just around the corner. Over the past couple of weeks, the silence of the night has been disturbed by a loud peeping sound. It’s mating season for the spring peeper.

Anne Marie Hartigan Peeper passed away peacefully alongside her family on Sunday, March 22, in Orlando, FL. She was born in Washington, D.C., on October 28, 1944, to G. Frank Hartigan and Pauline ...

It started with a dog playing with a squeaky toy. The relentless sound, like a rubber ducky in a child’s bathtub, penetrated my concentration as I tried to serve a tennis ball and failed. And failed.