Researchers in Iran have found what may be the first record of a dragonfly living deep inside a cave ecosystem onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Losing two of your best players while snapping a 10-game losing streak after angling to win post-trade deadline is what is colloquially known as “the New York Mets”

"These cats might have caught the virus from an infected mouse inside the home or perhaps even picked it up from a human with an unknown, asymptomatic infection... Either of these scenarios suggests that bird flu is even more entrenched than we realized." scientificamerican.com/article/bird-f…

World’s smallest falcon (22-25 g) and world’s largest hummingbird (~20-26 g). Amazing to see how form matches function. Smithsonian NMNH

Finding lost birds to increase conservation knowledge: 😀 Putting the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker on the list: 😑 nytimes.com/2024/08/23/sci…

There are some real stinkers here, but the whole enterprise is tainted by 1) No inclusion of Bruno Mars, the worst thing to ever happen to sound and 2) the unforgivable inclusion of JAMES TAYLOR, a musical embodiment of all that is good in this world dirt.fyi/article/2024/0…

It's been an honor to spend the summer up in Dillingham, Alaska reporting on salmon for KDLG 670am/89.9fm. In no particular order, here are a few of my favorite stories:

"The 30x30 pledge is good on paper," he said. "But the implementation needs to be inclusive, not about removing the guardians of the land." context.news/climate-justic…

This is not the key point of this piece, but it is worth repeating: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Seattle, let’s get these in a dozen neighborhoods and pedestranize them.

You ever meet someone and think: "This guy clearly never watched any Bugs Bunny growing up"?

You can use AI to write words, create pictures or animate a little guy dancing to Swan Lake but none of that will make you a better writer, artist or dancer. Though if someone has animated a little guy dancing to Swan Lake, I’d like to see it please.

In Search of Lost Time but every sentence ends with "lol" ... drive.google.com/file/d/1rrahfd…

A question I ask myself a lot these days: Where do people think images come from?

The effort to save Hakai Magazine.com is fully underway. So far, we've lined up commitments worth about half of what we need to keep publishing. Ideally, we want one or two more large foundations or donations to give us a solid floor before we throw the doors to reader donations.

Looks like the Pirates' offensive overhaul is going well!

Just learned that Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining conglomerates, starts quarterly earnings calls with a land acknowledgement

Crop wild relatives, or CWRs, are the genetic ancestors of our domesticated food crops. For centuries, we've turned to these wild plants for clues on how to withstand pests and drought and extreme heat. Read SAMUEL PETERS ode to the crop wild relative: ambrook.com/research/persp…