Reading archive 2025-07-09

Think you’re cleaning your water bottle enough? Wrong.: Here’s how often you should be cleaning your water bottle, and how to do it correctly.

To Save Nature, Make It Sacred: Beyond science and policy, the key to protecting Earth’s most vulnerable ecosystems may lie in the human capacity to treat certain places as sacred. - "The lake’s sacrosanct status does not rest on formal enforcement or economic incentives but on a moral orientation that has become embedded in the community’s relationship to place. Visitors care for the lake of their own accord; threat of punishment is not required."

Chesapeake Bay is stagnating. Here’s what could help.: This big pollution problem isn’t quite solved.

If Emanuel runs, he’ll bet on candor defeating the ‘culture police’: The former mayor of Chicago talks about what ails the Democratic Party, and how to cure it.

D.C. Democrats tarnish themselves by resisting ranked-choice voting: Initiative 83 would make the election system fairer. The D.C. Council should fund its implementation.

Canadian troops arrested in alleged plot to seize part of Quebec: The suspects are accused of stockpiling an extensive arsenal and conducting military-style training while building an anti-government militia, police said.