quote [ Wild bees, nesting in Argentinian crop fields, were recently found constructing nests entirely made of the flimsy plastic packaging material left on farms.

"It would demonstrate the adaptive flexibility that certain species of bees would have in the face of changes in environmental conditions," [Mariana Allasino, lead author of the study.]

Researchers have speculated that plastic may form a barrier against common nest issues like mold and parasites. ]

quote [ By handling bees with his bare hands, Michael Joshin Thiele seeks to better understand them. ]

quote [ About 10 years ago, [the NOAA] upgraded the system with what it calls Super Resolution, which allows vastly more detailed imagery. The imagery is so detailed, in fact, that it frequently picks up so-called non-weather targets like the ladybug swarm on Tuesday.

In addition to insects, NOAA technical documents say NEXRAD can pick up buildings, wind farms, migrating birds, road traffic and even sunrise and sunset, which will "show up on National Weather Service radar screens as a spike in the direction of the sun." ]

quote [ The climate change analysis was written by a former fossil fuel executive and backed by the former chief of Australia's military. ]

quote [ Press release from department said increasing export capacity is ?critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world? ]

quote [ Men ruin everything. ]

quote [ Among the Inca archeological sites that abound in Peru, none draw nearly as many tourists as the famed citadel of Machu Picchu. There were more than 1.5 million visitors in 2017, almost double the limit recommended by Unesco, putting a huge strain on the fragile ruins and local ecology.

Now, in a move that has drawn a mixture of horror and outrage from archaeologists, historians and locals, work has begun on clearing ground for a multibillion-dollar international airport, intended to jet tourists much closer to Machu Picchu . ]

quote [ A reef in Hawaii's K?ne?ohe Bay bounced back despite development, dredging, sewage and rising water temperatures, leading scientists to dub it a supercoral. ]

quote [ AirPods are disposable products that are also impossible to throw away. ]

quote [ Eduardo Brondizio, an Ibpes co-chair from Indiana State University, said: ?We have been displacing our impact around the planet from frontier to frontier. But we are running out of frontiers ]