Reading archive 2022-07-29

In much of Asia, tiger populations are rebounding: Better camera tracking and a crackdown on poaching have led to higher estimates of the top predator’s abundance

Americans dismayed at end of Roe are less certain they will vote, poll finds: A Washington Post-Schar School poll finds 65 percent of Americans view the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling as a major loss of women’s rights, while 35 percent say it is not

What’s in the Charles Schumer-Joe Manchin Inflation Reduction Act: The package, if smaller than Democrats’ initial ambitions, would transform huge sectors of the U.S. economy and affect millions of Americans

Ukraine could be turning the tide of war again as Russian advances stall

Opinion  Rising GOP anger at Mitch McConnell offers a lesson for Democrats

The consciousness of bees: Experiments indicate that bees have surprisingly rich inner worlds

Opinion  The devastating Chesapeake blue crab collapse - "In 2008, the Maryland and Virginia governors succeeded in having the crab fishery declared a natural disaster by the federal government to shake loose $20 million in federal relief for a disaster created by their own mismanagement. The states then committed to a target of 196 million spawning-age female crabs. But female numbers have fallen from 158 million crabs in 2021 to 97 million, less than half of the agreed-upon target. And yet Maryland still will allow up to 64 bushels of females to be taken on one vessel during certain periods. Recreational crabbers have been forbidden from keeping any females for years."