This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. When you think of bees, a hive humming with activity probably comes to mind. But most of the world’s 20,000 bee species don’t call a hive home. These wild species lead solitary lives instead, and around 70 percent of them build nests underground […]

In May 2020, Fernanda Meier walked into a nursery to buy a few plants that would be hard to kill. The Dallas social worker had started the pandemic with just one lonely plant and wanted to purchase some new friends. She walked out of the nursery that day with a couple of succulents and a […]

When Carey Gillam started working on her new book, she did not expect the man at its center to be alive when she finished writing it. Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, after all, had already been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer and his prognosis was grim. “I believed wholeheartedly that the last chapter would be […]