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Atlas Obscura
Native Societies Harvested Billions of Oysters Sustainably
Atlas Obscura
4 min read · May 19th · Conservationists should look to Indigenous history to fix the future.
Smithsonian Magazine
When Did Humans Domesticate the Horse?
Smithsonian Magazine
10 min read · May 20th · Only recently have scientists discovered exactly when and where the animal went from wild to tame
Guardian Environment
Extinction obituary: why experts weep for the quiet and beautiful Hawaiian po’ouli
Guardian Environment
3 min read · May 4th · Frantic conservation efforts couldn’t save the tiny, intricately colored songbird, whose obit is the first in our new series
National Geographic
The biggest living thing on Earth is being nibbled to death. Can it be saved?
National Geographic
5 min read · May 10th · Pando, a huge aspen grove in Utah, is a single organism that’s lived for millennia. Unchecked grazing is destroying it.
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Visual Capitalist
Nature Timespiral: The Evolution of Earth from the Big Bang
Visual Capitalist
10 min read · Apr 23rd · Since the dawn of humanity, we have looked questioningly to the heavens with great interest and awe. We’ve called on the stars to guide us, and have made some of humanity’s
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Aeon+Psyche
Love is both wonderful and a dangerous evolutionary trick
Aeon+Psyche
~13 min read · Apr 29th · Love is both a wonderful thing and a cunning evolutionary trick to control us. A dangerous cocktail in the wrong hands
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 273, including Tactical Tech, Larry G. Maguire 🇺🇦, Jason Silva, Anita Leirfall, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D.
Big Think
Simple is beautiful: Why evolution repeatedly selects symmetrical structures
Big Think
3 min read · May 3rd · Symmetrical objects are less complex than non-symmetrical ones. Perhaps evolution acts as an algorithm with a bias toward simplicity.
Quanta Magazine
Why ‘De-Extinction’ Is Impossible (But Could Work Anyway)
Quanta Magazine
3 min read · May 9th · Several projects are aiming to bring back mammoths and other species that have vanished from the planet. Whether that’s technically possible is beside the point.
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Aeon+Psyche
Human exceptionalism is a danger to all, human and nonhuman
Aeon+Psyche
~12 min read · May 5th · In a tight spot, you’d probably intuit that a human life outweighs an animal’s. There are good arguments why that’s wrong
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Vox
Inside the race to resurrect coral reefs
Vox
~18 min read · Apr 22nd · Half of all coral reefs have vanished. Can we save the rest?
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e360.yale.edu
Why Are Nature-Based Solutions on Climate Being Overlooked?
e360.yale.edu
8 min read · Apr 18th · Nature-based initiatives, such as planting mangroves and revitalizing wetlands, have proven effective in making communities more resilient to climate change. But international funding has shortchanged…
Reader View · Shared by 158, including David Wallace-Wells, Thomas Pleil
Smithsonian Magazine
When Did Humans Domesticate the Horse?
Smithsonian Magazine
10 min read · May 20th · Only recently have scientists discovered exactly when and where the animal went from wild to tame
Atlas Obscura
Native Societies Harvested Billions of Oysters Sustainably
Atlas Obscura
4 min read · May 19th · Conservationists should look to Indigenous history to fix the future.
The New York Times
Started Out as a Fish. How Did It End Up Like This?
The New York Times
7 min read · Apr 29th · A meme about the transitional fossil Tiktaalik argues that although we did emerge from the sea, we aren’t doing just fine.
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The New York Times
The End of Meat Is Here
The New York Times
7 min read · From 2020 · If you care about the working poor, about racial justice, and about climate change, you have to stop eating animals.
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The New Yorker
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
The New Yorker
20+ min read · From 2019 · A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.
Reader View · Shared by 548, including Michael Seemann, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, Ward Plunet, mdy, Marsha Collier, Ajit Pai, Beto Esquivel, Richard Deitsch, Tiago Forte, Dominik Grolimund, Aral Balkan, Mike Davidson, Nils Hitze, 𝔎𝔢𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔚𝔦𝔩𝔰𝔬𝔫 🆚 🦠, Mathew Ingram, LoriBeth, Florian Hanke 🍎, Korben, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Jeff Atwood
Neal Agarwal
The Deep Sea
Neal Agarwal
From 2019 · Scroll down the deep sea in this interactive page.
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Eric Holthaus
The era of 'rapid' climate change has begun
Eric Holthaus
8 min read · 2021-08-09 · Here's what the new IPCC report says, and what it doesn't, about the most important moment of our lives.
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TIME
Greta Thunberg Is TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year
TIME
20+ min read · From 2019 · The climate activist has succeeded in turning vague anxieties about the planet into a worldwide movement calling for global change
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Guardian Environment
Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
Guardian Environment
6 min read · From 2019 · New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
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Guardian Environment
50 simple ways to make your life greener
Guardian Environment
20+ min read · From 2020 · Expert tips on how to be kinder to the planet – from cooking and cleaning to fashion and finance
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Vox
The animals that may exist in a million years, imagined by biologists
Vox
8 min read · 2021-10-20 · Fully aquatic whale-rats. Praying mantises the size of dogs. Scientists imagine the future evolution of life on Earth.
Reader View · Shared by 379, including Merkstatt, Brian Resnick, Svein Tveitdal
Demis Hassabis
AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
Demis Hassabis
8 min read · 2020-11-30 · In a major scientific advance, the latest version of our AI system AlphaFold has been recognised as a solution to this grand challenge by the organisers of the biennial Critical Assessment of protein…
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