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The male of the Montrose Beach endangered piping plover couple, who has spent the last three weeks waiting for his true love to return, died yesterday: “It is with great sadness that we confirm the passing of Monty, one of the Montrose Beach piping plovers,” said Irene Tostado, of the Chicago Park District. Tamima Itani, of the Chicago Piping Plovers group, shared more details, saying Monty died Friday afternoon. “He was observed gasping for air before dropping and passing away,” said Itani. Great Lakes...

I had these lined up to read at lunchtime: Bruce Schneier explains how blockchain shifts, but does not eliminate, trust; and Bitcoin isn't useful. A lined article from 2017 goes further and says Bitcoin is an environmental catastrophe. A new interactive project shows how the summers in your city will feel in 2080. (Chicago's then will feel like Kansas City's today.) It turns out, if you're liberal, your brain reacts much differently to repulsive pictures than your conservative friends' brains. I'm ready...

Britons, concerned about the decline of one of their most popular (and useful) species, have found a simple helper for them: Gary Snyder has holes in his garden fence. That's not normally the kind of oversight you'd find in a well-kept British garden in a market town like Chipping Norton, 75 miles northwest of London. But the holes are there for a reason: hedgehogs. Snyder's backyard is now one small rest stop on what conservationists hope will be a network of hedgehog superhighways crisscrossing...