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Please don’t kill plants for snowman arms.
Photo: Chris Battaglia
A wildlife bridge to help animals cross the highway.
Ecoduct, Netherlands
As it turns out, the pipe’s story—and the secrets it carries—is far more intriguing than the islanders guessed.
The pipe was traced back to Cartagena, Colombia, more than 520 miles to the Southeast, and comes from one of the largest and most expensive municipal infrastructure projects to be undertaken by that country— the Cartagena Water Supply, Sewage and Environmental Project—a World Bank project steeped in controversy, scandal, and disaster.
This is entertaining
No, this isn’t Photoshopped. Great to see Palíndromo Mészáros’s surreal, scary photos from the aftermath of Hungary’s toxic waste spill getting some good attention today.

I don’t know about you, but I’m going to be looking more carefully at rocks in the future. Also possibly trees and dirt. Who knows what apparently inanimate objects might be filled with innards and holding perverse “selfing” orgies right in front of our noses? Thanks for keeping us on our toes, nature.

With no offspring and no known individuals from his subspecies left, Lonesome George became known as the rarest creature in the world.
For decades, environmentalists unsuccessfully tried to get the Pinta Island tortoise to reproduce with females from a similar subspecies on the Galapagos Islands.
Park officials said the tortoise was found dead in his corral by his keeper of 40 years, Fausto Llerena.
While his exact age was not known, Lonesome George was estimated to be about 100, which made him a young adult as the subspecies can live up to an age of 200.