内容摘要：James Marsden, left, and Sterling K. Brown in a scene from “Paradise.” (Brian Roedel/Disney via AP)

James Marsden, left, and Sterling K. Brown in a scene from “Paradise.” (Brian Roedel/Disney via AP)

The interview has been edited for length and clarity.TALLAMY: I am an entomologist, so I always think about insects, but it was when my wife, Cindy, and I moved into our home in Oxford, Pennsylvania. The developer had mowed the land for hay, and when you do that, what comes back is all the

from Asia, so we ended up with 10 acres of invasive species. Watching the insects interact with those plants showed very clearly that ourSo we put the plants that they require back. Ever since, I’ve been measuring the number of bird species that have bred on our property — 62 — and the number of moth species — 1,337 — that produce the caterpillars that those birds need to reproduce. And that tells me it works.About 80% of the plants in our residential landscapes are non-native plants. They don’t have to be invasive to wreck the food web. So that led me in a whole new research direction to find out what is happening to the food web.

We got the numbers that supported the argument that native plants are essential, insects are essential, insects are declining, theTALLAMY: I have been talking about it for 20 years and can measure the public response. I get three or four speaking requests a day. Interest is going through the roof.

My message is that you can be part of the solution instead of contributing to the problem just by how you landscape your property. You can reduce the area that you have in lawn, you can put in

and you can watch it come back to your own yard. And“I think in this political space, unfortunately, that is quite unlikely,” she said. “Problems that have been differently named — algorithmic discrimination or algorithmic bias on the one hand, and ideological bias on the other —- will be regrettably seen us as two different problems.”

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A global human rights watchdog on Wednesday urged the United States and other governments to bolster their support for people seeking democratic change in Venezuela and to hold President Nicolás Maduro accountable for the crackdown on dissent he intensified after the country’s presidential election last year.Human Rights Watch specifically called on the U.S. to

and members of state security forces. HRW also called for sanctions on ruling party-loyal armed groups linked to the widespread rights violations that followed the July 28 vote that Maduro claims to have won despite credible evidence to the contrary.At the same time, the organization recommended the U.S. rescind an executive order President Donald Trump signed in February imposing