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Why Do So Many Plastic Bottles Wash Up On Remote Islands?

Doug Williams

If a new study offering insights into the cause of tons of trash polluting our oceans and lining island shores is accurate, crews on ships…

New York City Study Finds it Has Five MILLION Trees in ‘forested natural areas’

Doug Williams

Thinking of New York City evokes images of the Empire State Building, Broadway, and the Freedom Tower but usually not the benefits of forestation. However,…

Seagulls Regurgitated Thousands of Rubber Bands on an Uninhabited Cornish Island

Doug Williams

Most of us worry about the amount of detritus we leave behind just going about our day to day lives. It seems that everything we…

‘HE MADE ME BUY FISH AT 5AM’ ‘Psychic’ Cat Sold to a Russian Witch For $84,000

Doug Williams

A cat with psychic powers. Cats have been made famous in literature and lore, myth and music. Some folks love them (like author T.S. Eliot)…

Wild Boars Snort $22,000 Worth of Cocaine Buried in a Tuscan Forest

Doug Williams

The late comedian Robin Williams once said that using cocaine “is God’s way of telling you you have too much money.” But recently a herd…

Deadly Brain-Shrinking Fungus Has Mysteriously Appeared in Australia

Doug Williams

All over the world, there are certain species of fungus, plants or animals that are unique to that region. Some are beneficial, like corn or…

Pollution in the Pristine Arctic: Appalling Soviet Cold War Legacy

Doug Williams

Yakutia, better known as Sakha Republic, is a federal Russian republic and home to 5 million tons of scrap metal pollution. The majority of the…

Fukushima From Radioactive Wasteland To Sustainable Power Source

Doug Williams

When the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima, Japan was hit by a thirty foot high tsunami in 2011, over one hundred thousand…

Mysterious Reservoir of Abiotic Methane Gas Discovered in the Ocean

Doug Williams

Gas: A recent scientific discovery has helped to solve an old geological mystery and given new knowledge and insight into the rise of life on…

Cows Swept Out to Sea by Hurricane Found on an Island After Swimming Miles

Doug Williams

Most animals and in the case cows, have an inbred aversion to water, and detest getting wet. With the possible exception of some breeds of…