It isn’t hard to think that Jeff Bezos left his role as Amazon.com’s CEO to enjoy a slower life filled with yachting and celebrity parties. But he would most certainly object to that characterization.

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A team at the University of Florida used drones and smart modeling to accurately count over 41,000 endangered turtles nesting along the Amazon’s Guaporé River—revealing the world’s largest known ...

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Newly discovered bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds have been breeding and nesting in the Arctic for at least 73 million years. “Which is kind of crazy, because it’s not easy to live in the ...

Leatherback turtles are expected to have another high nesting season, setting a record for the earliest nest recorded in Florida on Feb. 16. While sea turtle population numbers seem to be steadying as ...

New research shows that turtles are responding to climate change by nesting earlier. New research shows that turtles are responding to climate change by nesting earlier. Researchers monitoring nesting ...

Alfred L. Cralle optimized his invention for one-handed use by adding a thumb grip and a scraping tool that kept food from sticking to the scooper. Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images ...

Much has been made in recent years about the rise of the so-called 'Issues Novel’ in Ireland. Writers are embarrassed by it. Critics decry it. It almost seems as though the literati are at pains to ...

In the opening pages of Nesting, Roisín O’Donnell’s confident and compelling debut novel, a family of four visits a cafe in Skerries called Storm in a Teacup. A normal family, with normal names: Ciara ...