Autumn Spanne

Autumn Spanne

Autumn is an independent journalist and a 2016-17 Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She writes about the environment, climate change, sustainability, and human rights. Her stories, photos and multimedia projects have appeared in National Geographic News, The Guardian, Reveal, Scientific American, the Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Climate, Environmental Health News, CNN, and InsideClimate News.

How loud a fart is depends on a couple of factors.

Farts can make a lot of different noises. Some are high and squeaky, while others explode like a car backfiring—and some don’t make any noise at all.

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As we get older, we lose some of the stuff in our skin that helps it to stretch and then return to its normal place.

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It’s not actually your feet that stink. It's actually the bacteria that lives on your feet that smells.

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Did you know that when it’s summer in North America it is winter in some other continents, like South America and Australia?

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