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Hotels are usually built for travellers, but some are designed for creatures no bigger than your thumb. Scientists and conservationists have spent years creating these miniature refuges for wild bees in the form of small nesting structures fitted with narrow tunnels that mimic the hollow stems and cavities many solitary bee species naturally use to lay their eggs.

Since 2014, a strange and violent phenomenon has been unsettling scientists and local herders across the remote Yamal and Gydan peninsulas of western Siberia. Without warning, the ground itself explodes, blasting soil and chunks of ice hundreds of feet into the air and leaving behind a massive crater that can plunge more than 160 feet deep.

A floating solar farm in the Netherlands is turning out to have an effect nobody quite expected; it is giving underwater life a real boost. Bomhofsplas is a large artificial lake near the city of Zwolle, and its surface is now covered with more than seventy thousand solar panels installed by the energy company BayWa r.e.