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Snowmobilers Spotted a Moose Stuck Under Ice and Worked for Hours to Free it – WATCH
Last week, a pair of Anchorage snowmobilers rescued a moose trapped beneath the ice of a frozen creek.
To an Alaskan, a moose is not...
This Inuk Woman Is Teaching Her Indigenous Language Online to Help Others Reconnect With Inuit Culture
"Allurvik" means "place to take your next step" in the language of Inuktitut. It's also the name of the first online language tutoring service...
Wildlife Sound Recordist Releases Treasured Audio Collection for Free – to Awe and Inspire the World
One of the world's most prolific wildlife sound recordists has released a large collection of his most treasured recordings of wild places to listen...
For a Man’s 80th Birthday, a Wrong is Made Right Six Decades Later
Billy Macon is a faithful husband, father, and grandfather. He ran his own business, wrote a book, and enjoys his hobbies. But for six...
Birdwatchers Flock to See Rare 8-ft Raptor After Huge Russian Eagle Takes Detour into Maine
The Steller's sea eagle. It’s ripped, royal, and rare. To see the world's heaviest eagle, with its eight-foot wingspan, an American would normally have...
Top 10 Wins For the Planet in 2021 – These Will Turn Anyone Into an Optimist
In 2021, green innovation continued at a pace that has typified the yet-young century, and goals and projects long pursued came to fruition.
Maintaining the...
‘Once-in-a generation’ Fossil Discovery Reveals New Species in 16-Million-Year-old Amber
They've famously survived the vacuum of space, and even returned to life after being frozen for decades in Antarctic moss. But as hard as...
Fossil Found by Kids in New Zealand Turns Out to Be 27 Million-Year-old Giant Penguin
The remains of a giant prehistoric penguin were discovered fossilized on a beach on New Zealand, delighting a group of young students, and filling...
Near-Complete Pterosaur Skeleton Obtained in Police Raid Reveals Stunning Details About the Species
A series of smuggled paleontological finds recovered in a 2013 police raid in Santos Harbor, Brazil, contain the most complete crested pterosaur skeleton ever...
This Road Trip Map Helps You Visit the 47 Iconic National Parks in the Shortest Time
Smart algorithms are used to make calculations for data-driven science in a dizzying number of ways, but one man has used them to build...
Astonishing Peek Into Travels of Mammoth 17,000 Years Ago: A Diary Written in Their Tusks
An international research team has retraced the astonishing lifetime journey of an Arctic woolly mammoth, which covered enough of the Alaska landscape during its...
The US Halts Old-Growth Timber Sales in World’s Largest Remaining Temperate Rainforest
The US Department of Agriculture announced this month an end to large-scale old growth timber sales in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, “returning stability and...
One Man’s Crazy Idea For Michigan Town Lands Them As Finalist in ‘Nicest Places in America’ Contest
This story was chosen as one of the top ten nominations to win the Reader’s Digest “Nicest Places in America” contest: a crowd-sourced effort...
Norway Closes Down Its Last Arctic Coal Mine and Transforms Land into Giant National Park
Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel.
Norway is dismantling their last Arctic coal mine piece...
Endangered Humpback Whales Gain New Protections in Pacific Ocean From the U.S
The U.S. administration has announced it will be officially protecting 116,098 square nautical miles of the Pacific Ocean as critical habitat for three populations...
U.S. Suspends Oil and Gas Leases in One of Nation’s Largest Wilderness Areas
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced this week that it has suspended all oil and gas drilling activities established under the previous administration...
Caltech Uses Existing Underwater Cables to Detect Earthquakes and Tsunamis Ahead of Time
Seismologists at Caltech working with optics experts at Google have developed a method to use existing underwater telecommunication cables to detect earthquakes. The technique...
Island Overrun With Rats Completely Recovers in Only 11 Years After Ecosystem Had Been Decimated
Formerly known as ‘Rat Island’, this beautiful spot in the Aleutian islands has become a new example of how ecosystems can fully recover to...
Anyone in These States Can Get a Covid-19 Vaccine, Thanks to Several Native Tribes
The Native American tribes of Oklahoma are steaming ahead of the greater population towards herd immunity—so much so that they're opening up COVID-19 vaccination...
Cannabis Compound Inhibits COVID-19 Replication in Human Lung Cells, Study Says
In a study undergoing peer review, the CBD compound from cannabis has been found to stop COVID-19 replication in lung epithelial cells, suggesting the...