The 2020 Thanksgiving travel season will be unlike any other. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, decisions about whether to fly or drive to see loved ones are enormously complicated and personal.
More people passed through US airport security checkpoints on Sunday than on any other single day since the coronavirus pandemic cratered air travel, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
A tiny insect that evaded Australia's strict biosecurity controls is threatening plane safety at Brisbane Airport. Researchers say that without proper management, keyhole wasps could travel to other Australian airports and possibly even abroad.
With its wide-open spaces, skiing would seem like the perfect pandemic sport. There are enhanced safety protocols on the mountain and in the resorts, but there are still risks. You'll need to make adjustments to ski as safely as possible in the pandemic.
A 36-year-old overweight Asian elephant, who has spent much of his life languishing alone in captivity, is on his way to a sanctuary in Cambodia -- thanks in part to the efforts of American pop star Cher.
Kaavan the elephant had languished in a zoo in Pakistan for decades. But thanks to Cher and a social media campaign, he's on his way to a new home in Cambodia.
The US Forest Service wants you to leave the artificial tree in its box this year. Instead, it recommends, cut your own Christmas tree in a national forest -- a tradition that's good for the forest, too.
The site of the old Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport -- famous for its notoriously challenging runway in the middle of the busy city center -- is set to welcome a new sky-high landmark.
Your Thanksgiving table may be smaller this year, but if it's still full of squashes, corn pudding, turkey and cranberry sauce, thank Native Americans -- those foods are indigenous. But that apple pie is international -- apples are from Kazakhstan and the pie part is from England.
Passengers traveling on one Lufthansa route this month can buy a row of economy seats and stretch out across them, replicating the experience of a lie-flat business class bed.
Images of a jumping spider, an elusive gecko and battling birds are among a selection of amazing photos to have been picked in this year's British Ecological Society photography competition.
A New York couple said they found more than 66 bottles of whiskey from the Prohibition-era hidden within the walls and floorboards of their home, which was built in 1915.
Thanksgiving week air travel has remained strong enough to set a pandemic-era record despite urging from federal health officials for Americans to spend the holiday at home.
An hour's drive north of Stockholm, the Rune Kingdom offers a mysterious portal into Sweden's past that reveals unexpected truths about the country's Viking ancestors.
