Perhaps the only difference between us and the whales is in the choices we make.
Are whales just the result of our common wolf-like ancestor's great sea adventure? Read more, and then let me know what you think.
These belugas are fully adapted to an aquatic life, but ancient whales
lived where shore meets sea. @Candice Gaukel Andrews
When thousands of birds rained from the sky over Beebe, Arkansas, on New Year's Day 2011, scientists theorized it was due to noise pollution created by celebratory fireworks. This article asks the question: Do you think we need to institute noise regulations around sensitive natural areas, or would such laws be too intrusive, unrealistic, and impossible to enforce?
Perhaps red-winged blackbirds are trying to tell us something. ©John T. Andrews.
There are some statistics that you hear that knock your socks off, and you just can’t quite believe them. You think they’re concocted purely to get attention and for shock value. Here’s one I recently came across that fits that category: there are more tigers in American backyards than there are left in the wild throughout the world.
How could that be? I wondered. After all, the tiger isn’t even indigenous to the United States. It turns out that there is very little regulation on keeping wild tig
