6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (574+ words) Seattle may need to prepare for the possibility of multiple Jimothys — Jimothies? Jimothem? Jimothi? The internet has not yet settled on the plural. The unusually shaped raccoon became an internet celebrity after footage of him walking through the city’s Ballard…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (314+ words) With the frequency of wildfires impacting air quality in North America, plenty of us are wondering how we can protect our homes and our health. If you live in an impacted area, if you're going outside make sure to mask…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (636+ words) In 1969, researchers spotted a black and white sooty tern in Michigan. This hardy seabird, however, had little business visiting the Midwest. The saltwater species usually spends its life in the tropics, more than 1,000 miles away. Hurricane Camille -- one of the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (323+ words) Temperatures hit triple digits at a Russian town in the Arctic Circle on Saturday, either breaking or nearly breaking the hottest temperature on record in this polar realm. Preliminary observations, spotted by French meteorologist Etienne Kapikian, show the heat reached…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (649+ words) Even wildlife experts can't resist a proper eyeroll-inducing pun. On May the Fourth, the unofficial Star Wars holiday ("May the Fourth be with you"), a conservation group dropped some exciting news about an animal that looks oddly similar to Yoda,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (471+ words) At the main U.S. research station in Antarctica, annual temperatures average zero degrees Fahrenheit, but often drop much lower. There, near the United States' McMurdo Station, a few wind turbines can provide enough electricity to power 100 American homes, and avoid burning…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (310+ words) There are fat bears. And then there are bears that get so fat, they have trouble walking. As a former park ranger at Katmai, I've seen 747. I've cowered behind a fence as he's lumbered by. But don't take it from…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (410+ words) Vincent Janik, a marine biologist, vividly recalls watching a pod of dolphins play with seagrass during a field visit to Mikura Island in Japan in 2014. "They were wrapping the seagrass over their fins and flippers, and passed it on for…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (651+ words) Climate 101 is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate. Records will break. Some will get smashed. A dangerous heat wave will blanket Washington, Oregon, Northern California, British Columbia, and beyond, lasting this weekend through…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (545+ words) Fat Bear Week is, above all, a celebration. Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve is one of the wildest, least developed national parks, allowing an untrammeled natural world to flourish. This results in a lake and river ecosystem teeming with…...