Reading archive 2024-01-31

In Peru, a Mission to Save the Stingless Bee: Native to the tropics, these pollinators are taking a lead role in one of the latest efforts to conserve the Amazon rainforest.

Elmo asked how everyone’s doing and, um, they’re not great!

French tourist unearths 7.46-carat diamond at Arkansas state park: The lucky digger said he’ll turn his discovery into a wedding ring for his future wife

Everyone says trees are good for us. This scientist wants to prove it.: Nearly 8,000 trees and shrubs in southern Louisville and health data from about 500 residents fill out the urban science experiment

Opinion  If Trump wins, he will destroy the American-led world order - "The danger is that he would be more effective in his second term. The result could be the end of the Pax Americana. We would then enter a chaotic post-American world where rogue states committed aggression with impunity, democracies cowered and trade ties frayed. Sea lanes turning into shooting galleries would become the norm, not the exception, with the U.S. economy paying the price."

Michigan’s Arabs and Muslims push to defeat Biden in critical state: As the war in Gaza leads to the deaths of friends and relatives, anger at Biden’s refusal to call for a cease-fire has turned into political organizing - "The campaign’s organizers, who also oppose Donald Trump, have not yet coalesced around a strategy for the general election. They are still debating whether to encourage voters to support a third-party candidate or to skip the presidential contest altogether while still voting for other offices. Either way, the organizers are telling Muslim and Arab voters that they should show up and vote, rather than stay home, so it is clear that Biden specifically has lost their vote."

Inside Kyrsten Sinema’s reelection decision: Will ‘voters even care’ about her record?: As she pushes for another tricky bipartisan accomplishment, the deadline nears for the Arizona independent senator to decide on reelection

Gilded rage: Truman Capote’s vicious split with his ‘swans’: A new TV series revisits the real-life ‘Feud’ between the ‘tiny terror’ and his privileged pals after he penned malicious gossip about them

African production of natural gas poses a vexing climate challenge