Hotels and Tour Operators are Eliminating Plastic Straws
It’s a growing trend: Hotels, resorts, safaris, and cruises are increasingly banning plastic straws.
House leaders postpone vote on their health-care plan – The Washington Post
The news came as Republican leaders and President Trump were struggling to meet demands of conservative lawmakers who said they could not support the bill.
House Republicans to Gut Ethics Watchdog
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How a Free Grocery Store Is Cutting Food Waste—and Hunger
Each weeknight, The Free Store redistributes up to 1,500 surplus food items to anyone who wants them—no questions asked.
How a Love of Flowers Helped Charles Darwin Validate Natural Selection
Though his voyage to the Galapagos and his work with finches dominate the narrative of the famed naturalist, he was, at heart, a botanist
How a psychopath is made
Two “extreme” parenting styles have been linked to children becoming criminal psychopaths in later life, a study has revealed. The Norwegian…
How a teenage stowaway made it to Antarctica 90 years ago
A new book called “The Stowaway” tells the story of Billy Gawronski, a teenager who went to Antarctica with explorer Richard Byrd in 1928.
How Ants Became the World’s Best Fungus Farmers
Ancient climate change may have spurred a revolution in ant agriculture, Smithsonian researchers find
How Astrophysicists Found a Black Hole Where No One Else Could
A new method could help scientists peer inside universe’s densest star clusters to find undiscovered black holes
How can you know what to believe? | Earth | EarthSky
It’s not surprising that a new study linking extreme winter weather in the U.S. East with a warmer Arctic has drawn fire from global warming skeptics. Should you believe the study or the skeptics?
