I try to learn something new every day — this wasn’t one I was expecting for today — but handy knowledge. Turns out there’s a primate that can kill you with its elbows. A whale that escapes predators by essentially detonating a cloud of its own excrement. An armadillo that…
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Climate
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New Orleans Relocation Isn’t a Maybe Anymore — It’s a When
A new study landed this week with the kind of bluntness that climate research usually avoids: New Orleans needs to start relocating now. Not in a decade. Not after the next hurricane. Now. The paper — published in Nature Sustainability — doesn’t hedge. Southern Louisiana has crossed “the point of…
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There Are Crocodiles Everywhere — And Australia’s Flooded Territory Just Got More Dangerous
The Northern Territory of Australia is underwater. Rivers broke their banks. Roads disappeared. Power’s out. Schools closed. More than 1,000 people were evacuated by helicopter. And somewhere in all that rising water — 100,000 crocodiles. Not the cute freshwater kind that maxes out at 10 feet. The saltwater variety. The…