• ‘A Gift from the Sky’: Record-Breaking Nine-Hour Rainbow Appears in Taiwan
• The Men Collecting Stardust from Gutters and Rooftops
• The UK’s Impending Microbead Ban Has a Gray Area: Glitter
• To Save the Oceans, Should You Give up Glitter?
• All That Glitter? It’s Not Good, Critics Say
• Irish Beach That Vanished…
Exercise in Futility?
• Air Pollution Harm to Unborn Babies May Be Global Health Catastrophe, Warn Doctors
• Pollution Wipes out the Benefits of Exercise, Study Suggests
• Traffic Fumes in City Streets ‘Largely Wipe Out Exercise Benefits for Over-60s’
• Why Office Work Kills People’s Will to Exercise
• Is Your Core Strong Enough to Master the Invisible Box…
Glass of Water for Mr. Humphrys
• British Water Companies Are Searching for Leaks with Divining Rods and I’m So Angry I Could Cry
• Water Firms Backtrack on Admissions That They Use Divining Rods
• Water Companies Admit to Using ‘Divination’ in Order to Find Leaks
• ‘Dowsing Works,’ Says Humphrys Aft…
Trees & Trimmings
• Trees in Some Cities Grow Faster Than in the Wild, and Here’s the Crazy Reason Why
• A Lovely Scientific Appreciation of Trees
• Giant Fungus Covering over 2,200 Acres Is the Largest Living Organism Ever Discovered
• 2,190 Miles on the Appalachian Trail
• Christmas Trees: Science Has Finally Found the Answ…
Breathe & Sleep Deep
• Neuroscientists Have Identified How Exactly a Deep Breath Changes Your Mind
• Science Says Controlled Breathing May Help Alleviate Stress
• People with Certain Blood Types Appear to Be More at Risk from Air Pollution
• Napping on the Job May Turn out to Be a Very Good Idea for a Sleep-Deprived Natio…
Slip into the Library
• Salting Roads Saves Lives, But Also Takes a Major Environmental Toll
• A Hilarious Japanese Game Show Featuring Contestants Struggling to Climb Slippery Stairs
• Slippery Stairs Is the Japanese Game Show the World Never Knew It Needed
• The Stairs in a Viral Sensation Public Library in Ch…
Trash to Treasure
• The Weird, Wooden Future of Skyscrapers
• High-Tech Skyscrapers Could Be Built with Low-Tech Wood
• The Skyscrapers of the Future Could Be Built with the Garbage of Today
• Boaters Stumble on Massive Caribbean Gyre of Plastic Garbage
• Sweden’s Recycling Program Is Doing So Well They’ve Run Ou…
Learning from Nature
• The Physics of Champagne Bubbles Could Help Power the Future
• Wake Up and Smell the Traffic? London Tries Coffee to Power Buses
• Holy Smokes! Tobacco May Fuel Planes in the Future
• Full of Beans: Coffee Grounds to Help Power London’s Buses
• This Commuter Bus Runs on Poo…
Eco-Effects
• Percent of Forests by Land Area in Europe
• Rare Victory for Rainforests as Nations Vow to Stop ‘Death by Chocolate’
• Which Costs More in Electricity Use: Using a Hairdryer or Microwaving a Meal?
• Google Is Mapping Out Air Pollution Levels on Google Earth
• Big Meat and Big Dairy Emit Enough Carbon to Put Exxon M…
Banter & Boulder
• Why ‘Bushman Banter’ Was Crucial to Hunter-Gatherers’ Evolutionary Success
• Why It’s Human Nature to Ignore Our Instincts
• Jimmy Chin on the Deeper Meaning of Climbing
• Japanese Gardens: The Enigmatic Art of Raked Gravel and Rocks Does Not Give up Its Secrets Lightly
• Don’t Convert Africa…
New New Zealand Laws
• New Zealand Considers Creating Climate Change Refugee Visas
• A Proposal in New Zealand Could Trigger the Era of ‘Climate Change Refugees’
• New Zealand Is Banning Foreigners from Buying Houses
• New Zealand Compared to Italy
• The Secrets of Zealandia: The Lost Continent of the South
The City Struggle
• These Cities and Countries Will Pay You to Move There
• 25 Record-Breaking Cities: Highest, Cheapest, Oldest and Most Crowded
• What the Happiest Countries on Earth Can Teach Americans
• Why Is Leamington Spa the Happiest Place in Britain?
• Swiss Mountain Village, Population 13, Opens Hotel to Avoid Extinctio…
Runway Showstopper
• Even Earless Oysters Clam up over Noise Pollution
• The Plight of the Sea Otter
• This 450-Pound Seal Removed from Alaska Airport Runway
• Huge Sunbathing Seal Brings Alaskan Airport to a Halt
• Huge Bearded Seal Blocks Airport Runway in Alaska
• Climate Change and Overfishing Bring Explosion of Jellyfish
Tech to The Future
• Are the Amish Right about New Technology?
• Humans Are Bad at Predicting Futures That Don’t Benefit Them
• Advice on How to Predict the Future, from a Professor Whose Job Is to Predict the Future
• ‘Slightly Crazy’ 19th-Century Weathermen Who Braved Formidable Conditions Could Aid Climate Predictions
• Stephen Hawking Says the …
Power to Go
• Ingenious New Sewage Treatment System Generates Electricity and Clean Water
• Waste Toilet Paper Could Produce Lots of Electricity
• World’s Largest Laser Could Solve Our Energy Problems
• Can a Carbon ‘Vacuum Cleaner’ Save the Planet?
• DeepMind Wants to Find the Next Miracle material — Experts Just Don’t Know H…
Driver Ed, Then & Now
• Self-Driving Vehicles Could Make Jaywalking Legal
• Researchers Go After the Biggest Problem with Self-Driving Cars
• The Latest Fake Town Built for Self-Driving Cars Has Opened in South Korea
• A Glimpse Inside the Secret Site Where Driverless Cars Undergo 20,000 Tests
• Millions of Professional …
The Plots Thicken
• Farmers Urged to Bury Their Underpants for Better Beef
• Farmers Urged to Bury Their Underpants to Improve Quality of Their Beef
• Scottish Farmer Reveals Why He Soils His Pants on Purpose
• Canadian Man Wakes up to Find Random House Abandoned in His Field
• #FindSue Mystery Solved as Farmer Reveals How Pol…
Treedom
• From Tennessee to Japan, Here Are 9 Otherworldly Forest Bathing Destinations
• A Biologist Believes That Trees Speak a Language We Can Learn
• The Wisdom of Trees: Walt Whitman on What Our Silent Friends Teach Us about Being Rather Than Seeming
• When You Think of Freedom, Remember the Charter of the Forest, Not the Ma…
Country Diary 2
• Country Diary: Stalking Red Deer on the Fringes of the City
• Country Diary 1917: Fungi Flourishes amid Autumn Decay
• Country Diary: Henry III’s Charter Helped This Tree Survive to a Ripe Old Age
• Country Diary: The Autumn Run Is a Bruising Experience for the Fish
Bug Changes Ahead?
• Monarch Butterflies Migrate 3,000 Miles — Here’s How
• Why Stink Bug Populations Are Booming in 2017 (and What You Can Do about It)
• These Ants Seem to Prefer Living on Tectonic Faults
• To Find Nectar, Bees Follow Blue Halos
• Flowers Have Secret Blue Halos That Bumblebees Can See
• 7 Surprising Insect …
Disruptive Evolution
• Birds as Our Spiritual Messengers
• Great Tits May Be Evolving Bigger Beaks. Here’s Why.
• Bird Feeders Might Be Changing Bird Beaks
• Birds Might Be Evolving to Eat from Bird Feeders, Study Says
• See How Human Activity Is Changing Animal Migration Patterns
• The Inner Life of An…
Cheese Tea & Garlic Coffee
• ‘Happy Chemical’ Discovered in Beer?
• Bubbly Ballistics: How Temperature Affects Champagne’s Signature Pop
• Colombians Have for Years Grown Amazing Coffee. Finally, They’re Drinking It
• I Put Peanuts in Coke to See What the Fuss Is About
• How Do You Use a Jar of Peanut Butter…
Long Live Nature
• Why Forests and Rivers Are the Most Potent Health Tonic around
• The Philosophical Appreciation of Rocks in China & Japan: A Short Introduction to an Ancient Tradition
• How the Japanese Practice of Forest Bathing Helps Candice Kumai Stay Grounded
• Ikigai Is the Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
• The Latest Longevity H…
Tree Knowledge
• Ancient Tree That Tore Itself Apart Only to Regrow ‘Most Complicated’ Ever Found
• The Life of Johnny Appleseed
• Alarm as Study Reveals World’s Tropical Forests Are Huge Carbon Emission Source
• Tropical Forests Used to Protect Us from Climate Change. Now, Scientists Say, They’re Making It Worse
• Forest Loss Means Tropics…
Unanticipated Arrivals
• Tons of Living Animals Have Floated from Japan to Oregon on Plastic Junk
• Coastal Creatures Are Crossing Oceans Floating on Makeshift Rafts of Plastic Debris, Warn Scientists
• Sea Critters Hitchhiked Across the Pacific on Tsunami Debris
• Debris from 2011 Tsunami Carried Invasive Species to North Americ…
Cows and Effect
• Cow Farts Are an Even Bigger Problem Than We Thought
• Intelligent, Inquisitive, Loving: The Secret Life of Cows
• The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young — Review
• How a Quarter of Cow DNA Came from Reptiles
• Dutch Startup Wants to Train Crows to Clean Streets of Cigarette Butts
• TV Commercial Depicts Gia…
Sounds Strange
• Dangerous Sound? What Americans Heard in Cuba Attacks
• Mass Hysteria May Explain ‘Sonic Attacks’ in Cuba, Say Top Neurologists
• First Recording Emerges of High-Pitched ‘Sonic Weapon’ Linked to Attacks on US Embassy Workers in Cuba
• Listen to the Sound That US Diplomats Heard When Attacke…
The Accidental Rainforest
• What the Bark Is That? – The Giving Tree Isn’t Home Right Now
• Clear-Cut Tropical Forest Revitalized with Industrial Orange Peel Waste
• This 12,000-Ton Pile of Orange Peels Is Now a Lush Costa Rican Forest
• How Discarded Orange Peels Brought a Costa Rica Forest Back to Life
• The Hidden Memories of Plant…
Herd Recently
• Sheep Also Yawn (Contagiously)
• What a Border Collie Taught a Linguist about Language
• To Save the Planet, Scientists Figured out How to Fix Cow Farts
• Why Farmers Treat Cows Like People
• The Secret Logic of Cows
• The Secret Life of Cows
• Cowabunga! Strange Cow Stories
Cold Cases
• Can You Help Decipher This Note about Antarctic Explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton?
• Activist Urges Walrus Rafts in Absence of Arctic Sea Ice
• Why Didn’t Russia Sell Alaska to Canada?
• Mårket Island: The Bizarre Border Between Sweden and Finland
• How This Giant Sphere in Iceland is Keeping Track of…
On the Road
• What Happens If You Turn off the Traffic Lights?
• The Geographical Challenges of Building a Continuous Drivable Road around the Earth
• Estimated Insect Deaths Due to Collisions with Motor Vehicles
• To Guard Against Climate Change, Los Angeles Is Painting Its Streets White
• Drinking and Drive-Overs
• Is It Better to Back in…
Around Town 1
• Driverless Shuttles Could Help Seniors Get around in Rural Japan
• Where Does ‘Taking Back Control’ Leave Our Shopping Streets? In Cloud Cuckoo Land
• One Italian City’s Ingenious Plan to Combat Xenophobia with Design
• Vending Machine Startup Hopes to Put Bodegas out of Business
Something in the Air
• A Cannery That Makes the Odiferous Swedish Delicacy Surströmming (Fermented Herring)
• Inside the World’s Smelliest Factory
• Step Inside the World’s Worst-Smelling Factory at Your Own Risk
• Air Pollution in Asia – Interactive Map
• Map Showing How Many Year…