When talking to Environmental and Energy Secretary Ian Bowles, it's hard to shake the feeling that he has spent most of his life preparing to direct some of the most ambitious energy and environmental policies in the state's recent history.

A team of top National Geographic magazine editors, photographers and a broadcast producer will present a workshop in multimedia journalism at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Friday, April 25.

Forty-five scientists are hard at work around New Zealand identifying our huge treasure trove of unique, unrecorded plants, insects, bacteria and fungi.

Area school districts have been pooling resources for years in Morris and Grundy County to lower costs of education and to get the best services available.

They say a picture is worth 1,000 words - but when it comes to science, one good picture might be worth 104 or 105 words, judging by this year's winners of the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.