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An army of oversized, orange-toothed swamp rats is devouring America’s wetlands, and the government has a solution: Kill them. Cook them. Eat them. These insatiable invaders—nutria—are South American rodents built like beavers with the appetites of locusts. They chew...
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The behemoth known as A23a, a block of ice twice the size of Greater London, has finally stopped drifting and wedged itself neatly onto the continental shelf of South Georgia. It’s been roaming the Southern Ocean for years, but now it’s stuck—like an ancient, frozen...
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Honeybees are the unsung laborers of the food chain, quietly pollinating a third of everything humans eat and drink. Morning coffee? Thank a bee. Almond milk? Also bees. But colonies are collapsing, thanks to a perfect storm of extreme weather, pesticides, and...
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