photo: Christian Steen via flickr. The Maldives definitely knows who’s paying the bills these days… The low-lying Indian Ocean nation has declared the entirety of its 90,000 square mile Exclusive Economic Zone a shark sanctuary , banning... 

Photos: Projeto Tamanduá Very little is know about Silky anteaters, which make their home in the Amazon rainforest , other than the fact that they’re tiny, nocturnal, ant-loving, and of course, incredibly cute. But, in hopes of learning more about... 

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Photos via the BBC It’s one of the (if not the ) rarest flower in the world: the Middlemist’s Red exists in only two known locations: a greenhouse in the UK, and a garden in New Zealand. Imported to Britain two hundred years ago from China,... 

“Nobody used to ride a bike in New York, but now it’s becoming mainstream” Our friend Clarence at Streetfilms rode around NYC with Village Voice entertainment columnist Here is the original post:  Riding in New York with Village... 

Photo via Andrew Evans of the National Geographic King Penguins are notorious for their prim, tuxedoed appearance–but a recently discovered all-black penguin seems unafraid to defy convention. In what has been described as a “one in a zillion... 

Credit: Giant Salamander Protection International It’s polite to ask before eating the last cookie, or the last piece of cheese, or the last animal of its kind on Earth. Actually, you can’t have permission for that last one: you can’t... 

Photo via dieselboii e-Waste is finally starting to go mainstream and the issue is making its way to television viewers. While some examples of e-waste on TV are horrifying, like the A mazing Race episode that made light of dumps and the extremely hazardous... 

photo: Quinn Dombrowski via flickr. We just passed two milemarkers which make this next one all the more poignant: First, two days ago was International Women’s Day and, second, we’ve just been told that in many places women are going to... 

This photo, via The Telegraph , shows just how difficult it is to move one of the large, primitive cycads. Important specimens from one of the world´s oldest and rarest species of plant were stolen last weekend, covert ops style, from a botanical garden...