The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution

Tens of thousands of Londoners died of cholera from the 1830s to the 1860s. The causes were simple: mass quantities of human waste and industrial contaminants were pouring into the Thames, the central waterway of a city at the center of a rapidly industrializing world. The river gave off an odor so rank that Queen Victoria once had to cancel a leisurely boat ride. By the summer of 1858, Parliament couldn’t hold hearings due to the overwhelming stench coming through the windows.

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Could flexitarianism save the planet?

Scientists say a drastic cut in meat consumption is needed, but this requires political will

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100 Practical Ways to Reverse Climate Change

At a time when the science of global warming is under attack and many people complain of climate change fatigue, some cheering news occurred last month: A book about climate change became a New York Times bestseller in its first week of publication. Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, edited by environmentalist Paul Hawken, is the first environmental book to make such a splashy debut since Elizabeth Kolbert’s Field Notes from a Catastrophe in 2006.

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Whales share songs from other oceans

New research suggests that humpback whale populations in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans are picking up musical ideas from one another, and incorporating the new phrases and themes into their songs. According to the study, published November 28, 2018, in the peer-reviewed journal Royal Society Open Science, humpback whale populations in different Southern Hemisphere ocean basins (the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans) sing similar song types, but the amount of similarity differs across years.

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Elephants are evolving to be tuskless after decades of poaching pressure

More than half of female elephants are being born without tusks

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Underwater Robot Has Potential To Help Revive The World's Dwindling Coral Reefs

Underwater robot has delivered over 100k baby corals in attempt to restore part of the Great Barrier Reef

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UPS driver saves dog from drowning in icy pond: 'She wasn't going to make it'

A UPS driver is being praised for braving an icy pond to rescue a young dog trapped in the ice. Ryan Arens was on his route shortly before Christmas when he rolled up to a house in Bozeman, Montana, and heard a dog in distress. "This dog was screaming and crying and going crazy," he said.

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