Science and Health
Human-Driven Climate Change is Changing the Colors of Fall Foliage, Scientists Say, The Washington Post
How to Biologists Put a Killer Whale Back Together, Bone By Bone, Mental Floss
Ice Age Human Footprints in Canada Reveal a Walk on the Beach Taken 13,000 Years Ago, Mental Floss
It’s Easy Being Green: Most Amphibians Are Biofluorescent, Study Finds, Mental Floss
More Than 350 Franklin Expedition Artifacts Retrieved from Shipwreck of HMS Erebus, Mental Floss
Hummingbirds March North, Fueled by Sugar Water, Sierra Magazine
Blasts from the Past: Old Nuke Films Offer New Insights, Scientific American
Home Sweet Dome: Bird Nests Used to Look More Like Fortresses, Scientific American
Tension in Taxonomy: Beetles Spark Heated Debate Between Traditional Taxonomists and DNA Bar Coders, Scientific American
NASA is Getting the “Before” Picture of the World’s Threatened Reefs, Hakai Magazine
Is That Buzz a Beyonce Fly or a Lady Gaga Wasp?, The Wall Street Journal (PDF)
Scientists Discover Massive Swarm of Crabs, The Wall Street Journal (PDF)
Big Tree Hunters Battle to Topple Records of Forest Giants, The Wall Street Journal (highlighted on NYI) (PDF) (roundup of Earth Day articles)
Singing Duets May Keep Fairy-Wrens from Cheating on Their Partners, The Wall Street Journal (PDF)
Astronomers Report Brightest Supernova Ever Discovered, The Wall Street Journal
Life Bustles in the Long Arctic Night, Hakai Magazine
How Green Cities Make for More Bats–and Why That’s Actually a Good Thing, The Washington Post
The Race to Save the Bonneville Salt Flats from a Slushy Demise, ScientificAmerican.com
250-Year-Old Eyewitness Accounts of Icier Arctic Attest to Loss of Sea Ice, Scientific American
Adventure and Exploration
Read One of the First Eyewitness Accounts of Antarctica, Mental Floss
Battling Ice and Injury, These Polar Explorers Traversed Unknown Lands, National Geographic
This Diver Found the World’s Deepest Underwater Cave, National Geographic
Decoding the Landscape in Africa’s Biodiversity Hotspot, National Geographic
Hikers Finish Epic Grand Canyon Thru-Hike, National Geographic
Exclusive: Deepest Underwater Cave Discovered, National Geographic
This Man is Hooked on Freeing Western Rivers from Deadbeat Dams, National Geographic
Wind, Cold, and Altitude Sickness: Winter at the South Pole, National Geographic
Everest Guide Shares What He Thinks Went Wrong on the Mountain, National Geographic
History and Culture
A Supreme Court Justice Hiked 185 Miles to Save Washington’s C&O Canal from Becoming a Highway, The Washington Post
The Canadian Village Where Sasquatches Are Said to Roam, Mental Floss
How 19th Century Photographer Anna Atkins Changed the Way We Look at Science, Mental Floss
Keeping The Times Civil, 16 Million Comments and Counting, The New York Times
Meet The New York Times’s Super-Commenters, The New York Times
The Charming English Fishing Village that Inspired Dracula, Mental Floss
How Samuel F.B. Morse Brought Photography to America, Mental Floss
Exploring Ties Between Nature, History, and Race, National Geographic
A Painter Memorializes the Planet’s Icy Grandeur, the Wall Street Journal (PDF)
The Monster Ships That Changed Travel, BBC Future
Why Elizabeth Hamilton is Deserving of a Musical of Her Own, Smithsonian.com
How Samuel Mudd Went from Lincoln Conspirator to Medical Savior, Smithsonian.com
Crokinole Gains a Following in Brooklyn, Thanks to a Canadian Expat, The Toronto Star
The Rise and Suspiciously Rapid Fall of Freedomland U.S.A., Atlas Obscura