In 2011, a 15-meter tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling at Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant, damaging three nuclear reactors […]

Each year, about 50 million male chicks — not wanted for meat or eggs — are culled in France, usually […]

Have you ever noticed that characters in your favorite movies and TV shows tend to use a lot of single-use […]

The Baird’s tapir is listed as an endangered species on the IUCN Red List, with less than 5,500 animals left […]

Meet Truffles the support cat. Not only does she purr and play and do all the things regular kitties do […]

Zoo keepers made a tortoise a homemade scratching station, and an adorable video shows the creature wiggling while trying it […]

There’s an old saying that goes, “Good fences make good neighbors.” With so many folks forced to stay at home […]

By putting the recycling costs on the producer rather than the consumer, Maine becomes the first U.S. state to hold […]

226 years ago today, Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first U.S. Postmaster General. It established a postal system that became […]