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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Rainy Day
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a puffin in Scotland. Photographer Barbara Robert snapped this shot in the
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“Fernweh”: A Farsickness or Longing for Unseen Places
You know when you’ve been away too long. You find yourself feeling a bit wistful for the comforts and familiarity of home, or you get a knot in your stomach when you think about
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The Surprising, Four Best Things You Can Do to Combat Climate Change
Perhaps no issue defines our Anthropocene Age more than climate change. The topic has been in news headlines for more than four decades now, ever since U.S. scientist Wallace Broecker put the term global warming into
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Plastic Straws Sent Packing from Scotland and Seattle
There’s a famous, one-word line in the 1967 movie The Graduate, when a well-meaning man advises a young college student, played by actor Dustin Hoffman, to think about the direction of his future. “Plastics,”
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Polar Bears Are Older than We Thought, and They Come from Ireland
Scientists—and those of us who are polar bear enthusiasts—have long thought that polar bears started off as brown bears about 150,000 years ago, adapting to their cold environment by developing smaller ears, thicker fur
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