Environment

  • Not everyone salivates at the thought of eating lion

    7/8/11 3:10 PM

    Thunder Burger in Georgetown has launched a "Wild Wednesday" promotion, serving exotic animal meat such as alligator ribs. One of their planned meats will be lion. Naturally, this is not going over well with wildlife activists.

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  • WaPo reader claims catfish speak to him

    7/8/11 6:15 AM

    Last week, the Washington Post ran a perfectly fine story about a fisherman who caught a 143-pound blue catfish in a lake along the Virginia–North Carolina border, besting the state record by 30 pounds. If weight means nothing to you, consider the accompanying photo: It took three grown men to hold the whiskered fish, which, of course, was dead. Well, this upset reader Hal Holzman enough to write a curious letter to the editor.

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  • Holy haboob! A visual history of dust storms

    7/7/11 9:12 AM

    Arizona isn't the only place to see haboobs, or major dust storms that can knock down trees and rip off roofs. Viddie this historical, visual celebration of the storm that sticks in your teeth.

  • Now we're employing goats as lawnmowers

    7/6/11 1:12 PM

    Fight the urge to shake your head and wonder if you're in an episode of the Flintstones. If you're in Gaithersburg, what you're seeing will be very real. Those goats will be mowing the lawn.

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  • Typical July weather today in D.C.

    7/5/11 8:27 AM

    Clouds break for some sunshine with seasonable highs in the upper 80s.

  • D.C.'s new electric-car charging station is exciting for almost nobody

    6/28/11 2:53 PM

    Attention electric-car owners in D.C.! We have some news for all six of you. The District's fourth charging station is set to open Thursday. To the remainder of TBD's readership: Please move along now.

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  • A monstrous supercell is born

    6/28/11 6:49 AM

    Storm-chasing photographer Mike Hollingshead makes a living diving into dangerous situations to document the raging turmoil of a thoroughly pissed-off atmosphere. This footage of a supercell thunderstorm forming in McCook, Neb., represents some of the finest work in Hollingshead's "Extreme Instability" portfolio, which you can see more of here.

  • Geomagnetic storms expected today

    6/23/11 6:00 AM

    Geomagnetic storms in the high latitudes are in the forecast for Thursday after a long-lasting flare erupted from the Sun on June 21.

  • First day of summer brings hot, humid weather

    6/21/11 8:26 AM

    The summer solstice is today at 1:16pm, the longest day of the year (actually we have several) each at 14 hours and 56 minutes.

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