At 22, Jayden Williams became Stockbridge’s youngest mayor; 10 months later, the city council removed him after a 10-hour misconduct hearing

Jayden Williams made history as the youngest mayor of Stockbridge when he took office at age 22 in January. Just 10 months later, the city council voted to remove him from office following a 10-hour misconduct hearing focused on his administrative conduct, spending and use of city resources. According to local reports, Williams, now 23, […]

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In 1958, 58 feral pigs were removed from Clipperton Island, helping a seabird colony grow from 650 to more than 137,000

In 1958, Clipperton Island was a very different place from the huge seabird colony it would later become. The tiny Pacific atoll had once supported thousands of breeding birds, but decades of human occupation had left a heavy mark. Feral pigs, introduced when people settled on the island, had multiplied and were feeding on land […]

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