The $484,000 vessels will collect tons of trash and debris from the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers.

Winter storms will soon get real names.

If you want your newborn to stand apart from the crowd, maybe naming it Jacob or Sophia isn’t the best way—according to the Social Security Administration, those were the most popular baby names in 2011.

The National Zoo wants to name two of its adorable maned wolf pups, and it needs your help.

Thanks to I Can Haz Cheezburger—no, really—two cheetah cubs at the National Zoo have names today.

The National Zoo is at it again — it needs names for two cheetah cubs, and it has teamed up with the people behind I Can Has Cheezburger to vote on them.

It appears as if the Washington Post’s plans to name their new lady-blog “That’s What She Said” has run into a roadblock — namely, some other women, who had already named their blog that.

Naming a blog is an incredibly important thing. It’s the first thing that people see when they come to any given corner of the internet, and a bad name can really get your blog off to a rough start, regardless of the quality of the content found therein.

Breaking, incredibly important Friday afternoon news from the National Zoo: the Zoo’s adorable ferret kit has now been named Rosebud.

Oh, National Zoo, we knew you wouldn’t let us go for long without offering an offering of squee to help us get through these quickly-turning-brisk days.