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Wasp named for Lady Gaga sparks nerdy outrage
This wasp is named after Lady Gaga, and fittingly, some people are mad about it.
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Increasing Pollution, Dwindling Options
The Food and Environmental Reporting Network released a striking report this week (Sept. 18) describing how industrial agriculture and climate change are fueling massive blooms of toxic algae: Blooms have closed lake beaches or led to swimming advisories from Vermont’s Lake Champlain to Dorena Reservoir in Oregon and from Florida’s Caloosahatchee River to Wisconsin’s Lake Menomin. In addition to […]
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Here is a video of a fire tornado, and it is exactly as scary as that sounds
One time I made a joke in a Grist List post about some new horrible form of weather, where I was like “ha ha, what’s next, FIRENADOS?” And then people on Twitter were like “um, firenados are reality” and I was like “WHAT I don’t want to live in the world anymore” but yup. Fire […]
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Study: Men recognize cars, women recognize birds
A Vanderbuilt University Study on gender and observational skills reveals strange facts about what men and women recognize.
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This New Zealand river is officially a person
A river in New Zealand now has person hood status -- we're all so relieved, since everyone treats people great.
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Join us for a Twitter chat about green slime
Did toxic blue-green algae make your summer a bummer?
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Freaked-out climate scientists urge other freaked-out climate scientists to speak up, fight Man
Can we make the radical changes needed to stave off climate chaos? No, say scientists Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows, not "within orthodox political and economic constraints."
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Epic video shows the migration of hundreds of thousands of hermit crabs
OK, yes, the word “epic” is sorely overused to mean “something that is awesome on an awesomeness continuum that runs roughly from cornflakes to supernovas.” But when I say that photographer Steve Simonsen’s video of hundreds of thousands of migrating hermit crabs is epic, I mean “would not be out of place in a Cecil […]
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Chicago plans to eliminate pedestrian deaths
Walking is good. Getting hit by cars is not. Chicago hopes to increase the former by decreasing chances of the latter.
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The prettiest road spill you’ll ever see
Paint spilled all over the highway outside of Manaus, Brazil
