Every serving. No expiration date.
THE CHURCH AND MOSQUE NEXT DOOR KEEP GIVING BLOOD TOGETHER
They started as new neighbors. Fifteen years later, the annual blood drive is still on the calendar.
653 FROGS JUST GOT THEIR MOUNTAINS BACK
653 endangered frogs. Two mountain-stream releases. One species getting a real shot at coming back.
THE WHEELCHAIR STAYS ON SHORE. THE SAILOR DOESN’T
Sometimes inclusion looks like a hoist, a custom boat and a wide-open sea.
THE GLOWWORMS CAME BACK. A GARDEN SHED WAS INVOLVED
After a century away, tiny green lights are blinking again in North Yorkshire.
RICK STEVES BOUGHT HIS HOMETOWN MOVIE THEATER SO IT WOULDN’T DIE
A century-old neighborhood movie house just got a very determined new owner.
THE BABY RATTLESNAKES ARE CUDDLING. PLEASE ADJUST YOUR WORLDVIEW
Livestream cameras in California, Colorado and Pennsylvania captured live rattlesnake births, dozens of newborns and baby snakes cuddling adults for protection. Apparently even rattlesnakes have a snuggle phase.
THE WARBLERS HAVE BACKPACKS NOW
Researchers are fitting tiny songbirds with Tic Tac-sized geolocator backpacks that record light and atmospheric pressure across entire migrations. Serious science has once again required an extremely small backpack.
THE DEER HAVE INFRASTRUCTURE NOW
Washington’s I-90 Snoqualmie Pass wildlife overcrossing recorded its 10,000th successful animal crossing in July. Add 11 undercrossings and the project is nearing 40,000 recorded crossings since 2014. Apparently the elk were just waiting for civil engineering.
THE WORLD’S WEIRDEST PARROT REFUSED TO GO EXTINCT
New Zealand’s critically endangered kākāpō population has reached 325, after a record 90 chicks joined the official count this season. The recovery program began in 1995 with just 51 birds. Extremely round bird: still here.
100 RESTAURANTS SAID: PAY WHAT YOU CAN
A one-day idea from Mexico City restaurant Masala y Maíz grew into a global event with 100 restaurants in 14 countries signed on, while staff kept their normal wages and tips. The radical business innovation: trust people.
THE INTERNET GAVE THE BABY PORCUPINE AN EMOTIONAL SUPPORT LOG
Point Defiance Zoo welcomed its first prehensile-tailed porcupine baby in 121 years. Then the internet spotted the tiny porcupette clutching a log and named it an “emotional support log.” For once, the comments improved the story.
THE HUNTERS SWITCHED TEAMS
In Nigeria’s Omo Forest Reserve, former hunters are using the tracking skills they once used to hunt wildlife to find snares and help stop poaching instead. Redemption arc: operational.
CRUSH WENT HOME. EVERYONE CRIED
Crush, a loggerhead found cold-stunned and nearly lifeless on a Jersey beach in January, spent months in rehabilitation before being flown to the Azores, fitted with a satellite tag, and released back into the Atlantic. Good turtle. Good humans. Everybody go home.
SPAIN HIRED TINY COWS TO FIGHT WILDFIRES
In Galicia, small, agile Cachena cattle and other grazers are being used to chew down fire-prone vegetation. A regional pilot is even using GPS virtual fencing to steer cattle toward areas that need clearing. Cow-based infrastructure has entered the chat.
THE WOMEN TOOK THE WHOLE PODIUM
At Colorado’s Aspen Backcountry Marathon, Brier Youngfleish won the race outright — and women finished first, second and third overall. The overall podium was all women. That’s the whole post.
THE LAUNDROMAT HAS A LIBRARY NOW
Laundromats are becoming tiny literacy hubs, with children’s books and family reading spaces turning wash-cycle downtime into reading time. Apparently the spin cycle comes with a library card now.