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I write short obituaries for people who spent their lives protecting parts of the natural world. I work on them in the margins of other responsibilities, yet they have become a constant. In 2025, I produced over 70. The people I write about are often described as conservationists, scientists, activi...
NASA and Boeing are testing longer, thinner wings that can provide a smoother plane ride while saving fuel. It s claimed that those wings would be a revolutionary design for commercial aircraft, but like any breakthrough technology, they come with their own development challenges – which experts fro...
Raising kids can be a frustrating experience, no matter how rewarding you also find it. Sometimes, it can feel like half of parenting is repeating yourself over and over again, asking your child to brush their teeth or take a dish from the living room to the sink. It’s exhausting and makes you feel ...
With Christmas just days away, Keith Urban wanted to spread some holiday cheer for children staying in a Nashville hospital. The 58-year-old country star stopped in to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and spent some time visiting with patients and their families. Keith has been a ...
For us parents, leaving our children at college is so incredibly hard. As much as we want them to fly, keeping the chicks close to us in the nest feels so much more comfortable. But for many, college is a rite of passage they want to experience and is a welcome blessing. But what about everyone else...
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My grandad was, simply put, the man. He fought in World War II, lived into his 90s with the strength and vigor of a much younger man, and made an unforgettable impression on everyone who knew him. He was truly a force of nature that I was lucky to have in my life. He was also a highly quotable man, ...
Have you ever had that friend who goes on vacation to London for four days and comes back with a full-on posh Queen's English accent? "Oooh, I left my brolly in the loo," they say, and you respond, "But you're from Colorado!" Well, there are reasons they (and many of us) do that, and usually it's on...
One morning, a couple of years ago, Deachen Chuksit went to her field to milk the cows, a usual morning routine. But she was distraught to find one missing. As a native of Ladakh — also home to the snow leopard — this didn’t come as a shock. She’d often heard of the snow leopard’s notoriety and how ...
We live inside a storm of invisible signals. Phones, Wi-Fi routers, 5G networks, smartwatches, and medical sensors constantly send and receive electromagnetic waves. While this wireless traffic powers modern technology, it also creates a serious side effect, electromagnetic interference (EMI). These...
The Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia is collecting and storing cheetah sperm samples to preserve the species' genetic material in case the world's fastest land animal runs out of time, as cheetah populations have dropped by 80% in the last 50 years due to habitat loss, human-wildlife conflict, and the illegal wi...
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Arnulf Rainer, the Austrian artist whose relentless drive for experimentation made him a key figure of Europe s postwar scene, died on December 18 at 96 at his home in Austria. His death was confirmed by his gallery Thaddaeus Ropac. Born in Baden, Austria, in 1929, Rainer spent more than seven decad...
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Winter has officially arrived in the Northern Hemisphere. With today’s winter solstice, the days will start to get a little bit longer, but the cold will stick around. We humans typically handle the dipping temperatures by staying inside, sleeping more, and dressing in layers. But what about other m...
For much of the second half of the 20th century, the American outdoors attracted a particular kind of devotee. They moved easily between disciplines, took seasonal work without much concern for titles, and regarded time in wild places as both education and obligation. Their lives did not unfold alon...
Cartagena, Colombia, is set to ban its iconic horse-drawn carriages, replacing them with electric buggies — a move dividing the historic city over tradition, tourism, and animal welfare....
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Loneliness is a common but often overlooked issue for many women, with subtle signs like canceling plans and lack of social connection. Loneliness can have serious health consequences, so it's important for women to recognize the signs and take steps to reconnect.
Researchers studying a massive landslide in Alaska have detected strange seasonal seismic pulses caused by water freezing and thawing in rock cracks. These faint signals could become an important early clue to changes that might someday trigger a dangerous landslide-driven tsunami....
It was just another day in West Hartford, Connecticut. The year was 1949 and the place was Sedgwick Elementary School. Father's Night was approaching, so Kindergarten teacher Doris Morcom asked her young students to draw portraits of their dads. From the Inside History (via @Life) Instagram descript...
When Mats Janzon found Leya, she was just a tiny baby curled up alone in the grass near his home in Sweden. Janzon was out on a quiet walk in the woods when he heard a soft peeping sound and saw it was a baby otter. He kept his distance for several hours, hoping her mother would return. When no one ...
In late October, a group of 19 Buddhist monks set off for a 2,300-mile trek across the United States, beginning in Fort Worth Texas, with a final destination of Washington, D.C. Their mission? To spread a message of peace, unity, and healing.The journey, or “Peace Walk,” as the monks call it, is exp...
