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I don’t know about you, but I plan to spend Sunday eating and drinking beer and watching lots of commercials and eating some more. Oh, and watching some football, I suppose

The House of Representatives is starting work on the next big transportation bill this week, unveiling the proposed text Tuesday and marking it up today.

Authorities have raised the alert level for Cleveland Volcano in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, suggesting it may be on the verge of erupting ash and disrupting air travel.

Troops of bag-snatching, truck-looting baboons are causing chaos at a border post between Zimbabwe and Zambia in daily raids for food, NewsDay reported on Tuesday.

Sea urchins appear to be the lowliest of marine creatures—the painfully prickly echinoderms sit at the bottom of the ocean, feeding on algae far beneath the sea’s majestic swimmers. But there’s one set of landlubbers that can’t get enough of the briny deep’s ugliest residents: Sushi eaters. Green sea urchin populations have plummeted in North America, thanks in large part to rising demands for uni, a sweet, creamy dish made from sea urchin gonads.

? “We're nature, we're part of the same DNA. I live over Central Park and I study it all the time,” says Tony Bennett, who lives in New York City when he's not traveling the world for singing engagements.

Got a budding world adventurer in the house?

Travel can have a negative impact on the planet, but that doesn't mean you have to give up on seeing the world and start planning staycations.

WASHINGTON — The United States and Russia will jointly inspect foreign facilities in Antarctica to make sure environmental and other responsibilities under the 1959 Antarctica Treaty are being met, the State Department said Saturday.