There are two solstices each year. These are astronomical moments when the light is greatest and the dark is least (Summer Solstice) and when the light is least and darkness is greatest (Winter Solstice). Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself.
From Mexico to Myanmar, the monumental to the day-to-day, each week, HuffPost World will present some of the most remarkable images from across the gl...
In celebration of the summer solstice, or St. John's Night as it's called in Poland, residents and visitors in the Polish city of Poznan released 15,0...
In celebration of the recent summer solstice, one artist has decided to pay homage to Stonehenge, the mysterious prehistoric monument of Salisbury, En...
STONEHENGE, England — Rain-sodden crowds welcomed a spectacularly wet summer solstice at Stonehenge in true British fashion Thursday: With stoic...
I have left behind the longest day of the year, and traveled to Rio de Janeiro, where the sun sets around 5 pm for the shortest day.
Summer is anything but easy living for us.
Summer solstice is upon us New York. It is, by a fraction of a second, the longest day of the year when at 7:09 PM Wednesday evening, the sun climbs t...
With quickly soaring temperatures and a heat advisory officially in effect, thousands of yoga practitioners are laying their mats to sweat it out in T...
By: LiveScience Staff Welcome, summer! The season officially begins Wednesday, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The sum...
In the period around the summer solstice, the sun radiates its most powerful energy. But the seasonal ascendance of light and temperature is not -- despite popular belief -- due to our distance from the sun, but rather to the degree of directness of its rays.
From Networx's Sayward Rebhal: The summer solstice is the longest day of the entire year, the day that offers the very most light, and thus the sho...
Months of warm weather, water sports and barbecues are nearly upon us, with the first day of summer on the horizon. Wednesday June 20, 2012 at 7:0...
Tuesday is not only the longest day of the year, the solstice, and the official start of summer, but also on of the few days a year that the National ...
In archaic times, people perceived the sun, in its shining prime and glory, the giver of heat and light and life, to be the effulgent force of the female.
From the festival of madness to the festival of love, from harvest celebrations to a day of religious observance, the summer solstice has worn many ha...
High holidays offer a moment for assessment and appreciation. It is always appropriate to be grateful for what we do have, and at the same time to notice what is waning and how we are called towards reconstruction.
LONDON (AP) — A damp overcast morning has failed to deter thousands of people gathered at Stonehenge to celebrate the summer solstice. (Scroll down ...
Today, June 21, is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, which means it's the longest day of the year in 2011. The summer solstice occurs...
Let the sunshine in! June 21 is the first day of summer (in the Northern Hemisphere), and Google is commemorating it with a bright logo by contempo...
Central Park lights the stage in all her glory, for summer has arrived, voluptuous and steady. No longer do the denizens of the city fear nature's vacillating affection.
The summer solstice is the lightest, brightest, most brilliant summit of solar power. The peak, the potent pinnacle.
Each year in NYC, legendary musician Paul Winter presents two annual celebration concerts on the summer and winter solstice. I recently had the pleasure of talking with Winter about the upcoming summer solstice concert.
At the Winter Solstice the night is longest and the day is shortest. Cold envelops the Earth, trees are naked, the sky is grey, and the ground is froz...
This summer shall we engage in holy wedlock with the world? Shall we pledge our troth to the earth, to the sun, to all of nature, and each other?
