Photographs by Neil Ever Osborne Text by Jessica Camille Aguirre It was after midnight in Quito when Stella de la Torre came for me, waiting under a streetlamp next to the black minivan that would ferry us to the Amazon, to see the smallest monkey in the world. I bundled in, and we departed, driving […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Two rare female whales have been documented off the coast of Florida, each with a calf, marine surveyors said. The 20-year-old whale mothers, named Blackheart and Caterpillar, were seen Dec. 30 near Ponte Vedra Beach, a suburb of Jacksonville, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Research Institute. It’s […]
Around 8PM on December 30th, California Highway Patrol pulled over a driver for speeding his Rolls Royce Ghost down Highway 99. According to a CHP Madera County’s Facebook postthe driver was “found to be under the influence and placed under arrest for DUI.” Inside the roughly $400,000 luxury car, authorities found an unexpected passenger. “The […]
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during a keynote address at AWS re:Invent 2024, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas on December 3, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Noah Berger | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s note sent this fall to employees about corporate culture drew […]
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Along a gentle bend of the Los Angeles River, in a stretch of land called Taylor Yard, a sound like a high-pitched record scratch can just be heard above the cacophony of city life. This is the call of the least Bell’s vireo, an olive-gray songbird that is only five inches from tip to tail. […]
While the two adorable pygmy hippos continue to vie for the title of cutest viral animal, a new primate stands poised to steal some hearts. On October 27, a new baby siamang gibbon (Symphalangus syndactylus) was born to mother Hutan and father Sensei at Zoo Tampa at Lowry Park in Florida. The sex of this […]
Critics also caution about the risks of the build-up of toxic radioactive waste, which has to be stored safely or it could severely harm both humans and the environment. In September, Microsoft announced it would revive the mothballed nuclear plant at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania. Amazon paid $650 million in March to put a data […]
Nicole Hynson normally gets roped in to help when all else fails. The conservation biologist from the University of Hawaii is involved in bringing back all kinds of critically endangered plants from the brink of extinction. Unfortunately, she’s kept busy in her home state, Hawaii, which is also known as the extinction capital of the […]
The Oriental Stork (Ciconia boyciana) is currently on the World Conservation Union’s endangered species list. A recent finding that this species is genetically healthy indicates that habitat protection could quickly remove this migratory bird from that list if action is taken now. Credit: Kim, Hyun-tae iNaturalis A new genomic study of the endangered Oriental stork […]
