Wall Street Journal

How Venezuelan Gangs and African Jihadists Are Flooding Europe With Cocaine

The cocaine trade is far bigger and more geographically diverse than at any other point in history. Here’s how drug cartels are evading authorities using semi-submersibles to deliver shipments worth ...
The Conversation

The plague of frog costumes demonstrates the subversive power of play in protests

Anya M. Galli Robertson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
BBC Wildlife

An animal that can give birth through its back and a creature that can project its ribs through its skin to launch poison: 7 weirdest amphibians on the planet

A Surinam toad camouflages itself by dead leaves (credit: Getty Images) A South American frog whose young erupt from the mother’s back. Called (confusingly) the Surinam toad, it is the most ...
Times of San Diego

10 odd facts about San Diego’s weather history — rain, floods, and snow

Flood of 1916 as seen written at the bottom of the photo. (Photo courtesy of the San Diego Digital Archives) San Diego skies can shift in an instant (like recently). One moment it’s sunny and mild, ...
Reuters

Rain has final say as England and South Africa share T20 series

NOTTINGHAM, England, Sept 14 (Reuters) - The third and final Twenty20 International between England and South Africa was abandoned without a ball being bowled at Trent Bridge on Sunday as rain had the ...
Yahoo

Sophie Rain Donates $10,000 to Help Build a Home for 67 Children in Africa

For most people, birthdays mean receiving gifts. For Sophie Rain, this year it meant giving one. Days before her 21st birthday on September 22nd, Rain received a heartfelt video from Hypers Kids ...
Boston Herald

Lawyers for 5 men deported to an African prison accuse Trump’s program of denying them due process

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Five men deported by the United States to Eswatini in July have been held in a maximum-security prison in the African nation for seven weeks without charge or ...
Game Rant

Where to Find All Frogs in Sword of the Sea

Waseem is a writer here at GameRant. He can still feel the pain of Harry Du Bois in Disco Elysium, the confusion of Alan Wake in the Remedy Connected Universe, the force of Ken's shoryukens and the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Before Meditation Apps, Listeners Were Hooked on Whale Songs, Rain Sounds and the ‘Scream of the Southern Leopard Frog’

We’ve been listening to the great outdoors from the comfort of our homes since the invention of the portable tape recorder. Can nature sounds drown out the cacophony of modern life? Ellen Wexler - ...
The Telegraph

Color-changing creature found calling at edge of forest. It’s a new species

Scientists found a color-changing creature calling from the edge of a forest in French Guiana and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Elodie Courtois via Mônico, Courtois, Koch, Blanc, ...
Miami Herald

‘Bright yellow’ forest creature with ‘powerful’ call discovered as new species

Scientists found a “bright yellow” creature with a “powerful” call in a disputed region of French Guiana and discovered a new species, a study said. Photos from Maël Dewynter via Mônico, Courtois, ...