A Scary Ingredient in your Halloween Candy is Destroying Rainforests and Harming Wildlife
This Halloween, we should consider swapping the ordinary images of graveyards, ghosts and witches with that of burnt forests, skeletal trees and dying wildlife – because the scariest part of …
Swan Song: 5 fun facts about these majestic creatures
With tales like the Ugly Duckling, the Trumpet of the Swan, or even the movie Black Swan, many of us grow up hearing stories of swans representing a character that …
The Untitled Goose Blog
Last week, gaming company Panic released a new video game called the “Untitled Goose Game,” which took the internet by storm. In the game (available only for Nintendo Switch or …
Five Ways To Tackle The Gulf Of Mexico’s Dead Zone
This year, the Mississippi River flooded for more than 6 months, unprecedented in both length of time and volume of water. Researchers recently announced that this year the excess fertilizer …
Test Your Shark Skills With this Shark Facts Quiz
It’s Shark Week, and that can only mean one thing: sharks are everywhere! On your television, that is. Test your trivia knowledge with this jaws-ome quiz: Didn’t score as high …
Not So Scary After All: Shark Facts You Might Not Know
It’s Shark Week! Discovery Channel’s annual summer ritual taps into our fascination with these marine predators. That fascination is largely based on the fear of sharks that the film Jaws …
Going Medieval: Bats aren’t birds and bees don’t have kings
In ancient and medieval times, people were just as fascinated as we are today by the natural world and the creatures that inhabit it. Back then, they didn’t have Wikipedia …
