quote [ The day Japan bombed Pear Harbor, many American outposts in the Pacific, such as Philippines, Guam, Midway, Wake Island, Malaya, Thailand, and Shanghai also came under aerial attack. These raids took place within a few hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor?s naval base had begun. ]

quote [ The only way Democrats can hope to pass climate legislation is by radically shaking up the status quo balance of powers. ]

quote [ Corpse roads are among the country?s traditional trails. ]

quote [ They feed loads and loads of beetles, in addition to foxes, bears, and more. ]

quote [ The state experienced some form of drought for 376 consecutive weeks, the National Drought Mitigation Center said. ]

quote [ If the indigenous critique sounds like an anti-capitalist one, it should. Drawing on the work of communist Glen Coulthard from the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, Simpson recognizes the language of Marxism as her own. "There is an assumption that socialism and communism are white and that indigenous peoples don't have this kind of thinking," she writes. "To me, the opposite is true." ]

quote [ Blue-blooded and armored with 10 spindly legs, horseshoe crabs have perhaps always seemed a bit out of place. But by analyzing troves of genetic data and considering a vast number of possible ways to examine it, scientists now have a high degree of confidence that horseshoe crabs do indeed belong within the arachnids. "What the study concludes is that the conquest of the land by arachnids is more complex than a single tradition event," says evolutionary biologist Jesús Ballesteros. ]

quote [ Once clouds go away, the simulated climate ?goes over a cliff,? said Kerry Emanuel, a climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ]

quote [ Opium-addicted parrots are wreaking havoc on India's licensed poppy farms, and scaring them with firecrackers isn't helping. ]