Greenpeace faults many tech giants for environment impact
Source: AP News
An October 2017 report by Greenpeace, an environmental group, rated the environmental impact of several tech companies. Many of them did not rate well.
Science & Nature
What Animals Taught Me About Being Human
Source: The New York Times
Helen Macdonald, author of the best-selling memoir H is for Hawk, wonders about the desires and needs of animals. She suggests we can only imagine what they can be through our own lens of human experience.
Another Obama Decision Reversed? Now It’s About Food Safety.
Source: NBC News
This article documents the current disputes about the safety of workers in the meat processing and meat packing industry.
12 Surprising Facts About Starfish
Source: ThoughtCo.
You’ve probably heard that sea stars, or starfish, have the ability to regenerate limbs. Find out even more about these fascinating sea creatures.
Widely set eyes give hammerhead sharks exceptional binocular vision
Source: National Geographic
The bizarre head shape of the hammerhead shark gives it a distinct advantage in hunting prey.
An IQ test for animals?
Source: Science
It’s one thing to talk about which animals are smarter than others, but it’s quite another task to design a test that proves it.
Lightning
Source: xkcd
Author Randall Munroe answers readers’ questions about lightning—not necessarily in ways that calm their fears.
The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle May Finally Be Solved
Source: Big Think
The source of many bizarre tales, this area of the Atlantic Ocean has claimed a surprising number of ships and planes. But it’s not sea monsters or extraterrestrials causing the chaos.
Natural disasters — statistics & facts
Source: Statista
Get the big picture of types and impacts of natural disasters by clicking around this page. You’ll find graphs ranking disasters by type, location, damage done, and much more.
In a First, Gravitational Waves Linked to Neutron Star Crash
Source: National Geographic
Imagine the elation at witnessing a cosmic event that occurred millions of years ago! That’s what happened in October this year when scientists announced the ripple effect (literally) of two neutron stars crashing into each other around 130 million years ago.