ENVIRONMENT

The storm was indeed unusual, but in the North Pole, at least, it wasn’t quite as horrific as many people thought.

An Indiegogo campaign aiming to make our oceans a little cleaner.

The tiny plastic beads added to toothpaste, face wash, and shower gel have become a major source of pollution in our lakes, rivers, and oceans.

In Kamikatsu, around 2000 residents separate their everyday disposables into 34 distinct categories for recycling.

Pliable, strong overpasses are fashioned from trees—but they've never been documented in full.

For now, it appears that we’ve finally dumped something into the oceans that doesn’t seem to be hurting them.

YouTuber Bionerd23's videos from the Exclusion Zone aim to show viewers how safe the nuclear disaster site can be these days.

Hawaii’s Big Island is overrun with a very tiny—and very loud—frog.

The fuzzy green balls are revered as national treasures, celebrated in religious ceremonies, and kept as pets.

One man’s trash is another man’s fun fact.

One major threat? Collectors and horticulturists harvest the wild plants and sell them illegally.

Babies in Canada have to learn to walk the old-fashioned way.