Recycling This island is going trash free—by recycling all of its wasteNational Geographic - Karen GunnEnvironmentPlanet or Plastic? The Danish island of Bornholm has an aging incinerator that will soon need replacement. Instead, the local government is adopting a totally new system. 6 Minute Read By Karen
Play buttonAquariums Charlie, oldest southern sea otter at any zoo or aquarium, dies at 22Los Angeles Times - Jaclyn CosgroveCharlie, the oldest living southern sea otter at any zoo or aquarium, died Monday. He was 22. Long before Charlie was eating an endless supply of crabs and shrimp at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long
Pepsi PepsiCo Is Leaving Behind Plastic Bottles and Soda in Its Latest Product LaunchFortune - Beth Kowitt PepsiCo is ramping up its march beyond the plastic bottle. Today the consumer-packaged goods giant is announcing a new beverage dispenser for the food …
News Meal kits might be better for the planet than a trip to the storeEngadget - Christine FisherA study found meal kits could reduce emissions by as much as two kilograms per meal. It turns out the meal kits you can have delivered to your door by services like Blue Apron, HelloFresh and even Walmart
Extraterrestrial Life The Future of Interstellar Navigation Might be in Following the Starsfloridatime.org - By floridatime Earlier this year, NASA scientists successfully demonstrated navigation using a category of stars known as pulsars. But what are pulsars, and how …
Cleveland, OH How I came to collude with a bird after being asked by the postal service to evict it: Phillip Morriscleveland.com - Phillip Morris, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio -- I received a sternly worded note from the U.S. Postal Service this past week. I read it while watching Attorney General William …
Play buttonDrones Drone discovers a Hawaiian plant that was thought to be extinctMashable - Adam RosenbergHey there, Hibiscadelphus woodii. How you been? The plant, which is also known as "Wood's hau kuahiwi" and was thought to be extinct, is apparently still around and possibly even flourishing in its native
Pranayama Deep Breathing Might Have Benefits We're Only Beginning to Understanddiscovermagazine.com As a cell biologist, Sundar Balasubramanian never forgot his rural southern Indian roots, or the traditional practices his uncle, the village healer, …
Science The board games turning science into playtimeThe Guardian - Dan JolinThere are thousands of ideas out there, and they provide you with this amazing framework. The sky's the limit John Coveyou When Elizabeth Hargrave created a board game inspired by her love of birdwatching,
News UK police say total of environment activists arrested passes 700Reuters - by Simon DawsonLONDON (Reuters) - More than 750 climate change activists blocking roads at some of London’s most famous landmarks have been arrested over the last six days, police said on Saturday, up from a Friday of
Obituaries Ralph Solecki, Who Found Humanity in Neanderthals, Dies at 101The New York Times - By SAM ROBERTSRalph Solecki, an archaeologist whose research helped debunk the view of Neanderthals as heartless and brutish half-wits and inspired a popular series of novels about prehistoric life, died on March 20
Reno, NV Move Over, San Andreas: There’s an Ominous New Fault in TownWIRED - Geoff Manaugh U.S. route 395 is a geologic master class disguised as a road. It runs north from the arid outskirts of Los Angeles, carrying travelers up to Reno …
Austin, TX A Creek Flowing To The Colorado River Turned Black. Now The State Has Sued The Alleged Polluter.kut.org - The Texas Tribune, Carlos Anchondo ALTAIR – For more than two months, the waters of Skull Creek have flowed black, its surface covered in an iridescent sheen. Yellowed fish skeletons …
Great White Shark MIT researchers discovered a way to move objects as heavy as a great white shark with your bare hands. Take a look.Business Insider - Aria BendixThe megalithic structures at Stonehenge have vowed visitors for centuries, but scholars are still working to discover how they got there in the first place. It seems almost inconceivable that humans could
Permafrost ‘Disaster worse than Chernobyl’ looms as ancient anthrax spores could be blasted into the sky by ‘frozen me...Fox News - The SunPrehistoric diseases laying dormant in ancient ice could soon be unleashed due to climate change. Cities built on permafrost in Russia are now seeing temperatures which could destroy their infrastructure
Environment This scientist thinks she has the key to curb climate change: super plantsThe Guardian - Adam Popescu in La Jolla, CaliforniaIf this were a film about humanity’s last hope before climate change wiped us out, Hollywood would be accused of flagrant typecasting. That’s because Dr Joanne Chory is too perfect for the role to be The
Play buttonMississippi River 2 dads, 1 mom: Bald eagles raising 3 young in rare single nest and you can watchUSA TODAY - Sonja HallerEvery bald eagle does its part for the three fuzzy-headed eaglets. The two males, Valor I and Valor II, assist the female, Starr, "in nest maintenance, incubation and raising the young" in Illinois near
Alarm as study shows how microplastics are blown across the world The GuardianMicroplastic is raining down on even remote mountaintops, a new study has revealed, with winds having the capacity to carry the pollution “anywhere and everywhere”. The scientists were astounded by the
U.S. Politics Automakers Plan for Their Worst Nightmare: Regulatory Chaos After Trump’s Emissions RollbackThe New York Times - By CORAL DAVENPORTWant climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. WASHINGTON — As the Trump administration prepares to drastically weaken Obama-era rules restricting vehicle pollution,
The BrainBritish scientists on the cusp of curing blindness with pioneering treatment injecting a million stem cells into the backdailymail.co.uk - Stephen Adams Victims of a devastating form of blindness have been given hope by a new stem-cell treatment that rejuvenates the eyes. There is no cure for retinitis …
Smithsonian Chandra and the Event Horizon Telescope | ChandraBlog | Fresh Chandra Newssi.edu Chandra X-ray Close-up of the Core of M87 X-ray Credit: NASA/CXC/Villanova University/J. Neilsen There are a lot of clichés that get thrown around when …
Cape Cod Endangered whale experiencing mini-baby boom off New EnglandAssociated Press - By The Associated PressAn endangered species of whale is experiencing a mini-baby boom in New England waters, researchers on Cape Cod have said. The North Atlantic right whale is one of the rarest species of whale on the planet,
Play buttonAutomotive Industry “Rolling Coal” Backfiressierraclub.org - By Paul Rauber | Apr 13 2019 Trump’s EPA goes easy on mega-polluting trucks Pedestrians, cyclists, and electric vehicles have long been favored targets for drivers of monster …
Environment South Korea once recycled 2% of its food waste. Now it recycles 95%weforum.org - Douglas Broom The world wastes more than 1.3 billion tonnes of food each year. The planet’s 1 billion hungry people could be fed on less than a quarter of the food …
Event Horizon Telescope See the X-ray Neighborhood of the First-Ever Black Hole Photo in This Space Telescope Viewspace.com The orange speckles in a new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory add another dimension to the first-ever image of a black hole. This …
Science Fecal transplants result in massive long-term reduction in autism symptomsnewatlas.com - Nick Lavars Scientific research continues to uncover interesting connections between the gut microbiome and human health, including everything from depression to …
Technology Woman Records Sunflowers ‘Singing,’ It Sounds Like Music From Other Dimensiontheepochtimes.com - Simone Jonker Are plants sentient beings, and can they communicate? In an amazing video clip, one woman captured the audible quivering of sunflowers using a …
Play buttonBlack Holes Earth Sees First Image Of A Black HoleNPR - Bill ChappellThe world is seeing the first-ever image of a black hole Wednesday, as an international team of researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope project released their look at the supermassive black hole the
Medicine She lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew itCNN - By Sandee LaMotte, CNN(CNN) — On an early spring day in 2018, the faint smell of formaldehyde floating in the air, 26-year-old medical student Warren Nielsen and four of his classmates prepped a cadaver in the chilly dissection
