Belize is often described as a “pristine” ecotourism destination with a landscape that is “naturally” valuable. Yet for much of the twentieth century, British Honduras—as the country was known under colonial rule—was seen as lacking value, an unprofitable backwater.Valuing Nature at the Ends of the World: Natural Capital and Climate Disaster in Belize (Columbia UP, 2026) explores how Belize’s precarious coastal environment has become a site for a new kind of capitalist value production, in which

In the absence of adequate federal safeguards against pollution and toxic chemicals, state policies are the strongest tools available to create safe, sustainable environments. The good news is, around the country, red states and blue states are taking up the charge. In California, state agencies are partnering with disadvantaged communities to measure air quality, reduce pollution, and advance environmental justice. In Texas, a state law requires every school to cut down on the use of dangerous

Today we're camping in the woods off Niemeyer Road by LeBoef Creek in Waterford, Pennsylvania on the hunt for the Waterford Sheepman! (We're doing another sheep-based cryptid today, sorry.) But not only do we discuss its appearance and encounters, we also talking about kissing bridges and the haunted town of Waterford! So grab a seat by fire and learn about another sheep/human monster! #KissesForSheepman Also, as mentioned in the episode, our friends over at What About Weird have put together...

This Bar-tailed Godwit makes one of the longest migrations of any animal — a 7,200-mile non-stop flight each autumn from western Alaska to New Zealand. In his book A World on the Wing, Scott Weidensaul explores the remarkable transformation godwits undergo to make this migration possible. Their digestive organs shrink as their weight more than doubles in stored fats and muscle mass.More info and transcript at BirdNote.org.Want more BirdNote? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Sign up for BirdNote+

For years, the family heard footsteps moving through the hallway after everyone had gone to bed.The sounds were always strangely familiar—the same creak near the bathroom, the same pop farther down the hardwood floor, and the same slow steps toward the living room.Eventually, they started calling whatever made them the Hallway Walker. Then a visiting family member heard the footsteps for herself. On another night, she watched a dark shape move across the wall as the footsteps crossed the room,

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For more than twenty years, the family had occasionally caught glimpses of a misty female figure moving through the hallway of their nearly century-old home. They came to believe it was Helen, the woman who had lived there before them.And for the most part, Helen seemed harmless. Things disappeared and later turned up exactly where they had already looked. Keys had a habit of returning only after someone asked for them out loud. Eventually, the family simply accepted that Helen liked to play.Then

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWOPlenty of people are interested in the paranormal. Dylan Jones is interested enough to pursue a PhD in it.Dylan is studying parapsychology at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, with research focused on modern paranormal groups and the influence media may have on the way they investigate ghosts and hauntings.For decades, paranormal television, movies, books, and now social media have helped shape our ideas about what a ghost investigation

Her grandparents’ house had always made her uneasy. The entire downstairs was filled with antiques—porcelain dolls, old furniture, and objects dating back hundreds of years—and even as a child, spending the night there meant nightmares and unexplained sounds after dark.Years later, financial circumstances brought her back to that same house, this time to live. That was when the strange activity began escalating.Objects disappeared. Footsteps and whispers came from empty rooms. Family members and

In this episode of SETI Live, Jeremy Webb joins Moiya McTier to discuss Life is But a Stream: The Distribution of Planetary Systems Along Stellar Streams and Their Properties. Stellar streams are elongated structures of stars moving through the Milky Way, often shaped by tidal interactions and the galaxy's gravity. Jeremy Webb's research explores how planetary systems are distributed along these streams and what their properties can reveal about planet formation and evolution in dynamic galactic

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She had been inside the house dozens of times before and never thought there was anything unusual about it.Then one afternoon, she glanced toward a mirror in the front room and saw a man standing at the bottom of the staircase.She turned immediately. The stairs were empty.What made the experience harder to dismiss was that someone else had already described seeing a pale male face in that same mirror months earlier. Later, another person in the house would report seeing what sounded like the same

Living on a military base meant moving into homes that other families had occupied before them. At F. E. Warren in Wyoming, the old brick officers’ houses had a history reaching back to the cavalry days. But some residents began to wonder how much of that history had stayed inside. An upstairs door slammed, followed by running footsteps. In another home, something strange happened on the same date two years in a row. Neighbors had stories that made ordinary rooms feel a little less familiar. Then

Your name cut through a roomful of noise because part of your mind was scoring every sound in the room for relevance, all at once, while you were busy listening to someone else.That's the two-stage system at work. Awareness is the wide-angle lens, quietly monitoring everything and tagging it. Attention is the spotlight, promoting the few things that matter into the part of your mind where decisions get made. One is involuntary, like a loud bang. The other is something you aim, like scanning a crowd

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!Plenty of people are interested in the paranormal. Dylan Jones is interested enough to pursue a PhD in it.Dylan is studying parapsychology at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, with research focused on modern paranormal groups and the influence media may have on the way they investigate ghosts and hauntings.For decades, paranormal television, movies, books, and now social media have helped shape our ideas about what a ghost investigation should

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWOTucked into the woods of North Texas, Old Alton Bridge has become something far more than a crossing—it’s a place surrounded by stories that refuse to settle.Known to many as Goatman’s Bridge, the site has long been tied to accounts of violence, loss, and something darker that may have followed. Over time, those stories have grown—shifting between local history, whispered warnings, and encounters people struggle to explain.Visitors have reported

After more than two decades working in clean energy and 11 years behind the mic at SunCast, Nico Johnson has had a front-row seat to an industry that looks radically different from the one he entered.For this anniversary episode, Nico is joined by his business partner, Josh Beck, who shares the load in both questions and responses as they reflect on what changed, what surprised them, and what the next chapter of clean energy may require from founders, investors, and industry leaders.The

Paul and Trudi Schaefer always assumed they would live out their lives on the farm they built up over several decades. When they realized they needed to move on, their first step was to take LSP’s Farm Transition Planning Course.More Information:• LSP 2027 Farm Transition Course • LSP Land Transition Tools • LSP Land Transition Profiles

Manure nutrient management is uniquely complex, and we discuss some reasons why on today's Advancing Nitrogen Smart episode. What specific factors make manure management far more complex than applying standard chemical fertilizer? How do digestive systems and diets cause nitrogen availability to differ across various livestock species? Why does nitrogen availability decline so rapidly when manure is left exposed on the soil surface, and how much may be lost to atmospheric evaporation within

Most people would overlook Polyporus ciliatus, but its delicately hairy cap margin and fine pores make it one of the more distinctive small polypores of temperate forests.Dive deeper on the blog: https://lichenthevibe.com/fringed-polypore-polyporus-ciliatus/In this episode, two hosts explore the Fringed Polypore’s morphology, including its small brown to yellowish-brown cap, ciliate margin, pores typically measuring 5–7 per millimeter, slender stem, and tough fruitbodies. The discussion then