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‘Canopy Meg’ wants you to care about the rainforest

Amazing gravity-defying botanist talks about flying snakes, tree sloths, and the 98 percent of life in the rainforest that we don’t even know exists yet.

Samantha Larson Science

Climate reality bites: Gen-Xers don’t care much about global warming

Members of Generation X are responding to climate change with a big, collective shrug of indifference, according to a new survey.

John Upton Science

Wham, bam, goodbye dam: Fish get down after river opens up

The removal of a dam from a river in northwest Washington proves remarkably successful at encouraging fish repopulation.

Philip Bump Food

Third-World problems in the First World: We need family planning to fight poverty in the U.S. too

A big article in The New York Times examines single motherhood and poverty, but fails to mention birth control. That's quite the omission.

Lisa Hymas Culture

7-11’s mashed potato Slurpee machine in action

I’ve often said that the only real problem with mashed potatoes is that you can’t get them extruded out of a machine in a 7-11, in the form of a spookily liquid glop with gravy. I mean, what even is the point? Luckily, 7-11s in Singapore are finally making this right, with Slurpee-style machines that […]

Jess Zimmerman Food

The right gets mad about the carbon tax, as everyone knew they would

On Friday, we predicted outrage over a right-wing convening on the carbon tax. It happened. We're basically psychic.

Philip Bump Climate & Energy

Amazing tiny apartment has a bathtub under the dining table

This Barcelona flat might be our favorite tiny apartment yet.

Jess Zimmerman Culture

Like a bad gambler, TransCanada promises it will have Nebraska’s money next time

Pipeline operator TransCanada paid 60 percent less in taxes to Nebraska than it promised. But the company says it'll pay more next year!

Philip Bump Energy

Mayor Stubbs, cat, celebrates 15 years in office

Talkeetna, Alaska, isn’t going to the dogs. It’s going to the cats — or really, one cat, which has been mayor of the town for 15 years. Mayor Stubbs was voted in by a write-in effort when locals got fed up with their human rulers.

Sarah Laskow Science

Oil industry dumping crap in North Dakota. Um, literally.

The oil industry is diversifying the ways in which it pollutes. Hold your nose.