Minnesota Will Pay Homeowners to Replace Lawns with Bee-Friendly Wildflowers,...
Bees are the most important pollinators in agriculture and are also extremely important in natural areas as well. (1) They are responsible for pollinating 70 of the roughly 100 crops that feed 90% of...
View ArticleWhat’s For Breakfast In 2050
The breakfast table of 2050 is set to challenge our traditional morning routines. As we wake up to a world with a population projected to reach 10 billion, the question of what’s for breakfast becomes...
View ArticleLion Cub’s Legs Deliberately Broken So He Couldn’t Escape While Tourists...
Time and time again, humans prove themselves to be the most ruthless and dangerous ‘animals’ on the planet. Animal cruelty being one of the worst offenses, we hear these tragic stories again and again....
View ArticleAn Extinct Bird ‘Evolved Itself’ Back Into Existence, Twice
The white-throated rail is a bird about the size of a chicken. It is native to Madagascar and tends to colonize individual islands, specifically an atoll called Aldabra, a ring-shaped reef in the...
View ArticleThis Eclectic Community Transformed a Desert into a Fantastical Forest
A place once covered with trees, the Tamil Nadu had become a dry, barren desert over the course of the 18th to 20th centuries. European colonists had all come in an attempt to build cities, effectively...
View ArticleThis Is Why Tourists Should Stop Riding Elephants In Thailand
Thailand authorities are warning tourists to stop riding elephants in their country as heart-wrenching images of the beaten animals exploded on Twitter. The caption was: “You can stop inhumanity...
View ArticleSeal Is Beaten Unconscious By Tourists So ‘Children Could Take Pictures With It’
This article was originally published in August 2019 and has since been updated. For every heartwarming story you hear about people rescuing animals from terrible situations and nursing them back to...
View ArticlePro boxer Manny Pacquiao wins $1.5 million, uses it to build 1,000 homes for...
Most people who have enough money to do so will donate to charitable causes here and there. Few do what one of the world’s greatest boxers of all time has done. Manny Pacquiao builds homes for the poor...
View ArticleStudy: Living in Nature Protects Against Mental Illness While Living in the...
More than half the global population lives in cities, and for good reason [1]. With their large, dense populations, cities are full of opportunities. Millions of people move to metropolitan areas every...
View ArticleCouple Build Amazing Shipping Container Home For Debt-Free Living
Chances are, the majority of you reading this article have a mortgage. Most of you work nine to five every day so you can afford that mortgage, food, and your other regular expenses. Whatever is left...
View ArticleWhen Researchers Discovered an Underwater Volcanic Range it was Teeming With...
If you think we’ve seen the end of scary-looking marine species, think again. Despite discovering dozens of new marine species every year, scientists are certain that much of the ocean remains a...
View ArticleHere’s What Happened When a City in Alaska Took Fluoride Out of Its Drinking...
After officials in Grand Rapids, Michigan, began adding small amounts of fluoride to the city’s water in 1945, the number of tooth cavities dropped by an astonishing sixty percent [1]. Since then,...
View ArticleThere’s an Unfinished ‘City of The Future’ Tucked Away in The Arizona Desert
Tucked away in the middle of the Arizona desert there is an unfinished and not-so-aptly-named “city of the future”. This city, called Arcosanti, currently sits at 1.5% capacity and is only 5% complete....
View ArticleRural community that lost two coal mines is now teaching kids to install...
A cluster of elementary school kids sit at a picnic table in a grassy field, avidly watching 18-year-old Xavier Baty connect a solar panel cell to a small motor hooked up to a fan. With precise...
View ArticleKenya Installs the First Solar Plant That Transforms Ocean Water Into...
The Earth is a watery place. In fact, 71 percent of our planet is covered in water [1]. Despite this, one in nine people do not have access to safe drinking water – that’s around 785 million people...
View ArticleIs Oat Milk a Scam?
Oat milk is a non-dairy alternative that has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. Recently, however, questions have arisen about its nutritional value and whether it’s actually good for you....
View ArticleThis GoPro Camera Recorded Itself Being Swallowed By Lava – And Survived To...
We’ll probably never get tired of throwing things in lava. It’s something that’s almost certainly taken place since time immemorial, and although there’s no practical way to turn lava lakes or flows...
View ArticleForest garden with over 500 edible plants requires only a few hours of work...
Have you ever wondered why some plants thrive better untended in forests than in many human-owned gardens? No one caters to the fruit trees or prunes the wild vegetable shrubs every week. No one...
View Article40 Towns You Haven’t Heard of But Should Visit ASAP
Most of the time when we think of places to go to for a vacation, we automatically think of the popular destinations: The ones we see on TV and in movies, big cities, and well-known tourist...
View ArticleWelcome to the Underwater “Town that Drowned”
What was once a popular destination for the wealthy and famous people of Argentina is now known as The Town That Drowned. Completely flooded with water, today stands only ruins – and one resident who...
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