Illustration by Myriam Wares; from “A Plague on Ibiza”
HIGHLIGHTS
The Diseased Rhododendrons That Triggered a Federal Plant Hunt [The New Republic]
A Plague on Ibiza [VICE Magazine]
This Fire-Loving Fungus Eats Charcoal, if It Must [New York Times]
Manatees May Carry Half a Million Microscopic Hitchhikers [New York Times]
Over 200 Million Years Ago, Nature Called. It Was Full of Beetles [New York Times]
Conservation and Ecology Research Tackles Global Issues Without Global Input [Popular Science]
Can We Untangle Ecology From Its Baked-In Colonial Biases? [Popular Science]
Sperm Whales Have a Surprisingly Deep—And Useful—Culture [Popular Science]
Living in the Same City Doesn’t Mean Breathing the Same Air [Popular Science]
Cool STEM Jobs: Honeybee Researcher [Scholastic Science World]
How to Motivate Me for an Exercise Class [The New Yorker]
Do Plants Have Something to Say? [New York Times]
Summer in the Heartsick Mountains [Jezebel]
Binge-Watching Trump’s Climate Horror Show [New York Times]
Can Nothing Change Your Life? [The Cut]
A Comprehensive List of All the Sports I Should Have Quit [Jezebel]
Here’s What Happens When You Try and Track Down a Ted Cruz College Rumor [Jezebel]