The Latest On: Monday Reads
January 23, 2012
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Monday Reads: The Fine Particulate Matter Edition
Just in time to ring in the Year of the Dragon, a few days ago, Beijing’s infamously murky air gained a long-awaited official index: real-time measurements of the city’s PM2.5 levels.
January 9, 2012
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Monday Reads: The Hybridizing Shark Edition
Climate change has been accused of being many things, from Imposter to Glacier National Park Name-killer. And now to the list we can add...Interspecies Dating Matchmaker?
September 6, 2011
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Monday Reads: The Animals Predicting Earthquakes Edition
Two weeks ago, a peculiar sensation was experienced up and down the Northeast. Some thought it might have been the zombie apocalypse finally unfolding; others, that perhaps they had ingested something disagreeable for lunch. Regardless, it gave more than a few people the unexpected opportunity to stretch their legs—and brush up on disaster preparedness.
July 11, 2011
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Monday Reads: The JFK Turtle Invasion Edition
Here at Monday Reads, we’ve followed the jellyfish typhoon invasion, gardening goat invasion, and wolverine invasion-of-one. Finally, we’ve reached the turtle invasion.
June 14, 2011
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Monday Reads: The Never Too Late For Love Edition
Two longtime bachelors are proving that it’s never too late to find love.
Al (widowed) and Tex (serially dater) were getting up there in the years and were perhaps more than a bit rusty on the romance angle, neither having enjoyed the company of the fairer sex for decades. But when the lovely Patches and coquettish Corky came to town, all bets were off and these old-timers were back in the game. The girls were nearly half their age, but love knows no boundaries—and these Aldabra giant tortoises were no exception.
May 30, 2011
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Monday Reads: The Hawk Cam Edition
Polar bears may be the poster child for climate change, but our warming world is affecting flora and fauna up the food chain and down. Birds of prey are no exception. As temperatures change, some areas get drier, others get wetter—and the landscape that the birds have relied on and adapted to becomes increasingly foreign.
For many of us, the active lives of birds can be glimpsed only fleetingly (if at all) through carefully trained binoculars. Thankfully, the Internet—as it has with so many other mysteries of life—has stepped in to help us out.
April 25, 2011
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Monday Reads: The Laughter Edition
These days, it seems like the fossil fuel companies are the only ones having gigglefests.
March 22, 2011
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Monday Reads: The Midway Atoll Tsunami Edition
Several hours after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami struck northern Japan, towering waves raced west across the Pacific, engulfing the three tiny islands of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.