Bear-Sized Giant Beavers Once Roamed North America(smithsonianmag.com)

36 points by noleary 1 year ago | 37 comments

Drought in Iraq reveals tombs created 2,300 years ago(smithsonianmag.com)

152 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 24 comments

Eastern Baltic cod grow much smaller than they did due to overfishing(smithsonianmag.com)

260 points by littlexsparkee 1 year ago | 84 comments

Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch(smithsonianmag.com)

216 points by 1659447091 6 months ago | 68 comments

UN Declares That the World Has Entered an Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy'(smithsonianmag.com)

90 points by pseudolus 9 months ago | 80 comments

Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning(smithsonianmag.com)

179 points by 1659447091 7 months ago | 40 comments

EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections(earthjustice.org)

322 points by enraged_camel 1 year ago | 346 comments

Earthjustice press release criticizing the EPA's move to roll back PFAS drinking water standards, leaving communities exposed to forever chemicals in tap water.

Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine(404media.co)

327 points by maxwell 3 years ago | 106 comments

404 Media news article reporting that Maine voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure establishing a car right-to-repair law.

Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after Klamath River dam removal(opb.org)

365 points by gmays 1 year ago | 227 comments

OPB/AP news article on Chinook salmon spawning in historic Klamath River habitat less than a month after four dams were demolished.

Oregon lawmakers approve money to buy an iconic waterfall listed on Redfin(apnews.com)

187 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 98 comments

AP News article reporting that Oregon lawmakers approved funding to buy an iconic waterfall property that had been listed for sale on Redfin.

The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)

361 points by 6bitquant 18 days ago | 380 comments

Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.

New York City should carefully measure a new tree(blog.willmeye.rs)

69 points by willmeyers 23 days ago | 13 comments

Blog post arguing New York City should measure new candidate trees, since its tallest carefully measured tree, the Queens Giant, was last measured in 2004.