内容摘要：“We have a stronger jet stream, which is helping intensify a low pressure system that just happens to be coming up the coast. And so that’s how it got the nor’easter name,” said Kyle Pederson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Boston.

“We have a stronger jet stream, which is helping intensify a low pressure system that just happens to be coming up the coast. And so that’s how it got the nor’easter name,” said Kyle Pederson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Boston.

Walmart became the latest to join the list on Thursday — when the nation’s largest retailerdue to higher costs from tariffs.

While Walmart has built in hedges against some tariff threats, with two-thirds of its merchandise sourced in the U.S., it still isn’t immune. Higher prices began to appear on Walmart shelves in late April and accelerated this month, company executives said Thursday. However, a larger sting will be felt in June and July, just when the back-to-school shopping season goes into high gear.John David Rainey, the company’s chief financial officer, emphasized that prices are going up on many necessities. The price of bananas, imported from Costa Rica, went up to 54 cents per pound from 50 cents per pound, for example. And he thinks that China-made car seats, which currently sell for $350 at Walmart, will likely go up another $100.“We’re wired to keep prices low, but there’s a limit to what we can bear, or any retailer for that matter,” Rainey told The Associated Press.

Mattel Inc., the maker of Barbie dolls and Hot Wheels cars,that it would also have to raise prices “where necessary” to offset tariff costs.

The toymaker makes 40% of its products in China. It warned of price hikes on May 5 — prior to the U.S. and China

to temporarily slash the bulk of their sky-high levies — but tariffs on the country still remain higher than beforeBees and other pollinators have been

, and experts blame a combination of factors: insecticides, parasites, disease, climate change and lack of a diverse food supply. A significant part of the human diet comes from plants pollinated by bees — not just honeybees, but hundreds of species of lesser-known wild bees, many of which are endangered.In 2018, the U.N. General Assembly sponsored the first “World Bee Day” to bring

. Steps as small as planting a pollinator garden or buying raw honey from local farmers were encouraged.May 20 was chosen for “World Bee Day” to coincide with the birthday of Anton Janša, an 18th century pioneer in modern beekeeping techniques in his native Slovenia.