Analysis of bowhead whale poop shows that more toxins from typically warm-water toxic algae species are entering Arctic food webs as northern oceans warm and lose sea ice. The findings are based on nearly 20 years of feces samples collected from bowhead whales harvested for subsistence purposes by Alaska Native people living on the Beaufort […]
Deep beneath the waves, tiny clams with shells usually about as big as a pea bore into pieces of sunken wood. The wood is food for them, as well as a home. These rare, scattered, sunken pieces of wood support miniature ecosystems where different wood-boring clam species can live in harmony for years. But in […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] Shippensburg borough teen in Pennsylvania is facing felony counts of arson and risking catastrophe and misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment after a prank he carried out early Monday morning 40 miles southwest of Harrisburg, police say. According to tenants in a two-story residence, they awoke to fire on their porch and evacuated the house and […]
St. Peterburg, Florida police say that a man in that community, in an act of reprisal, early on Wednesday, took a bucket of human waste and splattered it all over the floor in a 7-11 convenience store on North Martin Luther King Street. According to the arrest report and the St Petersburg police, an inebriated […]