4 New Stories, For Your Reading Pleasure
Bombs for Butterflies: There’s one really easy way to save the monarch butterfly migration, and it involves guerrilla warfare. OnEarth
Polar Bears… FROM SPACE: Ok, the polar bears themselves aren’t from space. But new satellite technology is allowing scientists to monitor bears, penguins, whales, and even insects like never before. National Geographic News
Hamsters Don’t Eat Burritos. They Eat Each Other: Have you seen all the cute as hell hamster videos going around where they stuff various foods into their little faces? Yeah, well, all those viral vids made me want to look into a more unseemly bit of hamster biology–cannibalism. Slate
Second Silent Spring?: A new study links the most commonly used pesticides in the world to population declines in birds. This is some seriously bad news. National Geographic News
Hammie image c/o Marilyn Sherman
