Reading archive 2021-09-09

Study provides first evidence of coevolution between invasive, native species

A woman was late for her flight. So she told airline workers there was a bomb on the plane, police say.

Opinion: Georgia’s GOP lieutenant governor conducts the 2020 autopsy his party won’t - "From Duncan’s vantage point, the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was entirely foreseeable. He draws a direct line from Trump’s lies to the restrictive voting bills that Republicans introduced in legislatures across the country, including the state Senate over which he presides."

The world’s biggest plant to capture CO2 from the air just opened in Iceland: The Orca, an installation built by Climeworks, will capture 4,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year — and serve as a blueprint for similar technology.

Breonna Taylor’s image adorned T-shirts, signs and street murals. Now her portrait is in the Smithsonian.

Opinion: How Democrats will try to ‘Trump proof’ the White House — behind the GOP’s back

Inside the Ohio factory that could make or break Biden’s big solar energy push: Toledo-area plant faces pressure to boost output as U.S. blocks some solar-panel imports over concerns about forced labor in China - "Since 2004, U.S. production of the photovoltaic cells that form solar panels has fallen from 13 percent of global supply to less than 1 percent, while China’s share has soared from less than 1 percent to 67 percent, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

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"Hefty state subsidies of Chinese solar companies helped drive many U.S. and European panel producers out of business a decade ago. First Solar, which grew out of a predecessor company founded in the 1990s by Toledo entrepreneur Harold McMaster, was one of the few to hang on."

Xi Jinping’s crackdown on everything is remaking Chinese society