Grist List
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This 86-year-old great-grandpa loves biking so much that he became a paperboy
This is our kind of Christmas miracle story.
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Super-cute new primate species is already almost extinct
Take a good hard look at that photo, because it might be the last one you see: This new official species is already badly endangered.
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Apocalypse-ready German designer makes tiny houses from dumpsters
The world is coming to an end but don't worry. We can all live in dumpsters in Germany.
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Teeny rescued Brooklyn owl is totally fine, everyone!
"Owl Jolson" has been nursed back to health and released into the wild.
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Lizard named after Obama was wiped out by climate change
They named a lizard after POTUS 44. It is too short to play basketball, and too extinct to spend the next four years telling John Boehner to go fuck himself.
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This video of a city-sized iceberg breaking off from a glacier will blow your mind
Watch the largest glacier breakup ever filmed.
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This gingerbread Brooklyn is way too amazing to eat
Think how many people could live in/eat this dense, walkable, edible neighborhood!
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This 15-year-old is fighting to keep flame-retardant chemical out of Gatorade
Sarah Kavanagh is 15, a vegetarian, and a resident of Hattiesburg, Miss. She also sometimes drinks Gatorade.
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Watch a baby hippo learn how to eat
Aw, look at her trying to figure out why hippo food pellets look so unappetizing!