Fungi That Eats Radiation Are Thriving in Chernobyl
Chernobyl has gotten plenty of attention since the radiation explosion that happened in April of 1986 – people are fascinated with disasters, of course, but also with the ideas of apocalypse and what humanity and the world around it might look like if something similar happened on a wider scale. In much smaller, but still...
This Is What Millions of Monarch Butterflies Sound Like
If you’re someone who grew up in the migration path of monarch butterflies, then the pretty, fluttering insects probably have a special place in your heart (I know they do mine!). My mother is a teacher and at the end of every summer we would stop on the way home from the lake to traipse...
An Astronaut Shared the Moment Her Dog Saw Her for the First Time in Almost a Year
Even though Christina Koch is a NASA astronaut, this video proves that she’s just a regular person who loves her pets like family just like the rest of us do. Koch recently spent almost a year in space (328 days, to be exact) and her journey was the longest ever in space for a woman....
Baby Tortoises Were Born on a Galapagos Island for the First Time in 100 Years
Here’s a nice, positive story in the midst of the seemingly-nonstop flow of awful news stories lately. Pinzon in the Galapagos Islands is home to tortoises that are on the endangered species list, but the good news is that for the first time in 100 years, baby tortoises are back! So why did it take...
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Miner in Russia’s Arctic Circle Takes Beautiful Photos of Foxes on His Work Breaks
In the north-eastern Chukotka region of Russia’s remote and mountainous Arctic, one photographer finds the animals living there and captures them with his camera on his breaks from mining. The environment is bleak, and sparsely populated with ethnic Russians, Chukchis, and other indigenous peoples. There are virtually no roads and people here survive mostly by hunting reindeer....
Sleep in a Bubble Surrounded by Rescue Elephants in a Thai Jungle
If you’re looking for an outdoor adventure experience, we think we’ve found something you’ll like. In a jungle in Thailand, you can sleep in a bubble in the midst of freely roaming elephants. These extraordinary accommodations are called “Jungle Bubbles,” and are only found at the Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp & Resort in Northern...
Penguins Have Been Documented Using the Same Speech Patterns as Humans for the First Time
It seems as if there have been more and more reports of different animals displaying increasingly human characteristics, like making and developing tools, but most of the instances have been in our closer genetic relatives. So it feels a bit off to say it’s not monkeys, but penguins, whose speech patterns could closely mirror those of...
Fireflies Could Be Headed for Extinction Due to Light Pollution
If you’re from a part of the world where fireflies (or lightning bugs!) go hand-in-hand with the other delightful, relaxing, warm feelings of a summer evening well-spent, well, there might be bad news on the horizon. Popular Science reports that firefly species from around the world are at risk because of many of the same...