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Forests Are Being Destroyed and ‘Nature Lovers’ Are Helping
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPhoto Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyIn July 1921, Benton MacKaye, founder...
The Shark Species That Can Chomp a Chunk Out of Anything—Even Apex Predators
Slate via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThis essay is excerpted from Cake Zine’s fourth volume, “Tough Cookie.” Cake Zine is an independent...
Invasive lionfish have spread south from the Caribbean to Brazil, threatening ecosystems and...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn invasive lionfish at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico. G. P....
Virgin births from parthenogenesis: How females from some species can reproduce without males
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 6 months agoParthenogenesis, a form of reproduction in which an egg develops into an embryo without being...
Malnutrition, ship strikes likely cause of spate of whale strandings
The Daily World, Aberdeen, Wash. via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAug. 16—A lack of feeding and in one case, a ship strike were likely the causes of death for a series of gray whales that washed ashore in the county through the summer. Numbers are a bit higher ...
Let’s Raise a Glass to What Prohibition Accomplished
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWas prohibition really the policy failure it is made out to be? The obvious answer is yes — of course, it was a failure. Prohibition bred corruption, organized crime, gangland violence and a ...