Stephanie Hongo is a big believer in doing what you love — and she’s proof that the philosophy can lead to success. When the Connecticut-based artist quit a job she hated about five years ago, she was left trying to figure out how to make a living from her work. Inspired by a fellow artist […]
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Light-up ocean fishing nets could be a possible solution to saving the lives of endangered and vulnerable marine wildlife around the world. An illuminating study found that attaching LED lights to ocean gillnets drastically reduced total fisheries bycatch, or unintentionally caught species, by 63% — and still maintained the catch rates of targeted fish, according
Speed walking isn’t exactly an option for sloths, which is why these animals have always relied upon a dense forest canopy to navigate their natural habitat safely. An abundance of trees has historically kept sloths relatively protected from threats like cars, electricity lines, and ground-dwelling predators. But humans have been encroaching upon sloth habitats in
While you sun, swim, and snorkel in the ocean this summer, scientists are working deep beneath the surface to protect some of its most precious marine life from becoming bycatch. Gillnets are the tool of choice for catching many species, from salmon to cod to tuna. But these mesh fishing nets are nearly invisible in
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Meet Ross and Hugo Turner, a.k.a. The Turner Twins. They’re professional adventurers who’ve rowed across the Atlantic (netting the duo two world records), scaled Mount Elbrus in Russia, and have traveled to four of the world’s Continental Poles of Inaccessibility — by bicycle and paramotor, no less — to list but a few of their
