An Italian fisherman spent decades watching industrial fishing damage the waters he depended on for his livelihood. Eventually, he came up with an unusual way to fight back: putting enormous sculptures on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. Bottom trawling involves dragging heavy fishing nets across the seafloor, catching marine life while also disturbing the…
A self-described polling company managed to get a fabricated Los Angeles mayoral poll into the news, onto social media, and even into the incumbent mayor’s campaign messaging before admitting there was never a real poll at all. Median Strategies claimed Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass held a nearly 12-point lead over City Councilmember Nithya Raman…
A New York City nonprofit (CAMBA) that provides supportive housing to formerly homeless people has agreed to take additional steps before seeking to evict tenants who fall behind on rent. Supportive housing combines permanent housing with services intended to help residents remain stably housed. The changes are part of a settlement between the nonprofit CAMBA…
Residents across Las Vegas and Henderson have been beset by an onslaught of cockroaches. They have invaded homes to such an extent that, as the cockroaches settle in, people are moving out. News 3 Las Vegas has received complaints since Sunday from residents whose homes are more than a mile apart. Earlier reports from the…
For over a hundred years, one of New York City’s rivers has been missing one particular critter that called the waterway home. This summer, a centuries-long trend has ended. A motion-activated camera documented a North American river otter along the Bronx River at last. The image was recorded on June 23 by a camera placed…
A San Francisco family is moving out of the apartment they have called home for years after their new landlord raised the monthly rent from $3,695 to $7,000. Since 2021, Ashley and Zach Waldman have called a two-bedroom unit in the city’s Outer Richmond District their home. However, this June, they found a notice on their…
Bugs crawling over or bumping against car windshields aren’t rare. But when that bug is an emerald ash borer beetle, the situation goes from gross to nightmarish fast. The bug’s appearance riding on a windshield marks Washington state’s first confirmed encounter with one of North America’s most destructive invasive pests. Two people spotted the emerald…
Most of us have probably heard a horror story or two about awful neighbors before. In fact, there’s an entire subreddit dedicated to the awful things neighbors do to one another, and you could literally spend days scrolling through the stories, each one more horrifying than the next. But every once in a while you…
The saying goes, “When it rains, it pours.” However, for one North Carolina homeowner, it does more than just pour when the rain comes falling down in her Gastonia neighborhood. That’s because the rain is also bringing a torrent of mud down from her neighbor’s property. She told WSOC-TV about the issue recently, saying that she’s…