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Bill Gates Pledges His Entire Fortune to Save Millions of Lives

Bill Gates Pledges His Entire Fortune to Save Millions of Lives

Bill Gates is giving away nearly everything he has—$200 billion—to fight poverty, disease, and preventable deaths in Africa.

Bill Gates Pledges His Entire Fortune to Save Millions of Lives

Bill Gates is giving away nearly everything he has—$200 billion—to fight poverty, disease, and preventable deaths in Africa.

Drug Waste Is Turning Sharks Into Unwitting Victims of Cocaine Addiction

Drug Waste Is Turning Sharks Into Unwitting Victims of Cocaine Addiction

What happens when sharks start testing positive for cocaine? It’s not the plot of a late-night thriller—it’s real. Scientists off Brazil’s coast made a chilling discovery with global implications for...

Drug Waste Is Turning Sharks Into Unwitting Victims of Cocaine Addiction

What happens when sharks start testing positive for cocaine? It’s not the plot of a late-night thriller—it’s real. Scientists off Brazil’s coast made a chilling discovery with global implications for...

Underwater Robots Uncover Organic Secret as Heavy as 250 Million Elephants

Underwater Robots Uncover Organic Secret as Heavy as 250 Million Elephants

There’s a hidden world beneath the ocean’s surface—one that weighs more than 250 million elephants. Scientists have uncovered massive stores of phytoplankton deep underwater, invisible to satellites and critical to...

Underwater Robots Uncover Organic Secret as Heavy as 250 Million Elephants

There’s a hidden world beneath the ocean’s surface—one that weighs more than 250 million elephants. Scientists have uncovered massive stores of phytoplankton deep underwater, invisible to satellites and critical to...

Alvinho the Anteater is Teaching Us About His Species, You're Helping

Alvinho the Anteater is Teaching Us About His Species, You're Helping

Giant anteaters are a vulnerable species that has been extirpated from much of their historic range in Central and South America.

Alvinho the Anteater is Teaching Us About His Species, You're Helping

Giant anteaters are a vulnerable species that has been extirpated from much of their historic range in Central and South America.

America's Elephants Are Dying in Silence Behind Zoo Walls

America's Elephants Are Dying in Silence Behind Zoo Walls

They rock back and forth for hours. They cry out in pain no one hears. Their babies die young. You might think zoos protect elephants—but the truth tells a far...

America's Elephants Are Dying in Silence Behind Zoo Walls

They rock back and forth for hours. They cry out in pain no one hears. Their babies die young. You might think zoos protect elephants—but the truth tells a far...

Hungry Wild Elephant Raids Store and Walks Out With Snacks

Hungry Wild Elephant Raids Store and Walks Out With Snacks

What do you do when a 30-year-old wild elephant strolls into your grocery store, helps himself to crackers and bananas, then calmly walks out with a snack in his trunk?...

Hungry Wild Elephant Raids Store and Walks Out With Snacks

What do you do when a 30-year-old wild elephant strolls into your grocery store, helps himself to crackers and bananas, then calmly walks out with a snack in his trunk?...