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Article 5: Worlds Largest Bee 

            Alfred Russel Wallace, the British naturalist, was the first to record amassive insect in 1858, while exploring the island of Bacan in Indonesia. In 1981, American entomologist Adam Messer spotted the same creature on three different Indonesian islands. The researcher observed that the smart female bees, built their nest inside active arboreal termite mounds and lined them with wood chicks and sticky tree resin to protects them from termites entering. In the early 2000's Clay Bolt first heard about this magnificent insect and set a desire to go around and seek out the elusive creature in the wild. However his desire to seek for the creature began in 2015 when University of Princeton entomologist Eli Wyman showed him a preserved specimen of the insect. The photographer writes in his blog that "It was more magnificent than i could have imagined, even in death."

https://www.dogonews.com/2019/3/3/worlds-largest-bee-rediscovered-in-indonesia-after-38-years

Article 4: Monkeys changing color 

            Ever since humans got involved Monkeys started to change colors, however before humans only Chameleons and Squid can change their colors. Researches have recently spotted a black mantled howler monkeys in Costa Rica starting change colors on their legs. Researchers said that mantled howler monkey have a type of melanin. In the yellow hairs researchers have noticed the melanin had changed to a sulfur-containing type called pheomelanin which is seen in animals with yellow,red, orange tones.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/why-are-these-costa-rican-monkeys-turning-yellow

Article 3: The Megalodon 

             The Megalodon was the largest shark or fish that caused a lot of trouble in the ocean and the largest marine predators ever known. They were alive to 23 million to about 2.6 million years ago, during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs. Fossil evidence suggests that Megalodons went extinct about 2.6 million years ago, during a period of cooling and drying in many parts of the world. White sharks and early killer whales were also evolving to become a formidable competitors with the Megalodons. Then the Megalodons found fewer preys, and their population crashed.

https://www.britannica.com/story/what-happened-to-the-megalodon


Article 2: Plastic pollution 

             It was said that 18 billion pounds of plastic waste are in the world's ocean from the coastal region. The plastic waste that is entering the ocean is causing harm to all the creatures living in the ocean, from coral reefs smothered in bags, to turtles gagging on straws, to whales and seabirds that starve because their stomach is jammed with plastic waste which makes no space for real food. 40% of plastic being produced is usually used in packaging, and most of that is used only once then thrown out. About a 5th of plastic is recycled, though many other countries and businesses are trying to create solutions to increase that number.

Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/07/ocean-plastic-pollution-solutions/

Article 1: Vaping 

             It was said that in 2017 only a percent of 11.1 high schoolers vaped but in 2018 it increased to 20.8 percent. A person who inhales all of the nicotine in a 5% Juul pod takes in the same amount as a smoker would get from 26 to 40 cigarettes. 437 high schoolers from California are most likely to become regular users of Juuls of other e-cigs. Any use of any e-cigarette or vaping products are contained with addictive chemicals puts youths at risk. Nicotine also harms brain development until the age of 25 affecting the person's mood and impulse control.

Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/e-cigs-use-teens-vaping-2018-yir?tgt=nr