This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine.
On an overcast spring morning in 2012, Federica Bertocchini was tending to her honeybees close to where she lived in Santander, on Spain’s picturesque northern coast. One of the honeycombs “was plagued with worms,” says the amateur apiarist, referring to the pesky larvae of wax moths, which have a voracious—and destructive—appetite.
Bertocchini picked out the worms, placed them in a plastic bag, and carried on with her beekeeping chores. When she retrieved the
Jeopardy!’s showrunner, Michael Davies, revealed that the game show will move forward with season 40 by reusing old questions and former contestants amid the ongoing writers’ strike.
“I believe, principally, that it would not be fair to have new contestants making their first appearance on the Alex Trebek Stage, doing it with non-original material, or as we’ll talk about a combination of non-original material and material that was written pre-strike,” said Davies on the Monday, August 7,
Tonnes of solar panels could end up on the scrap heap unless the government acts now, experts have warned.
There are around 25million solar panels in the UK and as 2.5billion globally.
Governments across the world, the UK included, have been pushing for green alternatives to fossil fuels in order to hit emission targets in a bid to tackle climate change.
But as the first generation of solar panels are expected to die off in the coming years, experts have
Grist / Amelia Bates
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Plastic recycling labels are everywhere: The ubiquitous “chasing arrows” symbol adorns everything from plastic bags and water bottles to kids’ toys.
Most commonly, these symbols appear with a number—1 through 7—that identifies the type of plastic resin a product is made of. Number 1, for instance, corresponds to polyethylene terephthalate (PET)—the stuff that makes up water bottles. Number
