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Honeybee health blooms at federal facilities across …

A bee arrives at a hive on the roof of the Warren Rudman U.S. Court House, Friday, May 5, 2023, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Report: Buffalo’s snow-removal equipment, communications …

FILE - A person removes snow from the front of his driveway a few days after a winter storm rolled through western New York Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. A new report finds several shortcomings in Buffalo's response to a historic December blizzard in which 31 city residents died. The report was released Friday, June 2, 2023, by the New York University Wagner School for Public Service. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes, File)

First-of-its-kind Mars livestream by ESA spacecraft interrupted …

This image provided by the European Space Agency and taken with the ESA's High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) aboard the Mars Express spacecraft shows Mars as the spacecraft approaches the planet from a distance of 5.5 million kilometers. Launched in 2003, the spacecraft marked it's 20th anniversary, Friday, June 2, 2023. (European Space Agency via AP)

Tropical Storm Arlene, 1st of season, forms in Gulf of …

This GOES-East GeoColor satellite image taken Friday, June 2, 2023 at 1:21 p.m. EDT., and provided by NOAA, shows Tropical Storm Arlene, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, in the Gulf of Mexico off the west coast of Florida. (NOAA via AP)

Soaring rhetoric: NASA mission will carry Poet Laureate …

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón is seen at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. Limón wrote a new poem for an upcoming NASA mission to Jupiter's moon Europa. "In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa" will be engraved on the Europa Clipper spacecraft. NASA expects to launch the mission in October 2024. (Gregory M. Waigand/NASA via AP)

Boeing’s astronaut capsule faces more launch delays after …

FILE - Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft mounted on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. On Thursday, June 1, 2023, Boeing and NASA announced that the astronaut capsule faces more launch delays, this time because of flammable tape and weak parachute lines. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP, File)

Brazil’s Congress weakens pro-environment ministries in …

FILE - The new Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, left, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, center, and the new President of the National Foundation of the Indian, Joenia Wapichana, celebrate during their inauguration ceremony at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan. 11, 2023. In a rejection of early moves by Lula who took office in January, Brazil’s Congress on June 1, 2023 stripped powers from the new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples and Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, both led by women environmentalists. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

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Boeing signs alternative fuel deal with Los Angeles …

A demonstration site of a seawater-based carbon removal system is set up on a barge, Wednesday, April 12, 2023, in San Pedro, Calif. Equatic, a Los Angeles startup that is designing facilities to remove carbon dioxide from the ocean says it has struck an agreement with Boeing to provide the aerospace giant with a byproduct of the process to help it cut emissions from planes. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

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Private flight with 2 Saudi astronauts returns from …

In this frame grab from video broadcast by SpaceX, recovery crews lift and secure the SpaceX Dragon capsule after it splashed down into the Gulf of Mexico, just off the Florida Panhandle, late Tuesday, May 30, 2023. The private flight carrying two Saudi astronauts and other passengers returned to Earth after a nine-day trip to the International Space Station. (SpaceX via AP)

China plans to land astronauts on moon before 2030, …

Chinese astronauts for the upcoming Shenzhou-16 mission, from left, Gui Haichao, Jing Haipeng, and Zhu Yangzhu wave as they stand behind glass during a meeting with the press at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Monday, May 29, 2023. China's space program plans to land astronauts on the moon before 2030, a top official with the country's space program said Monday. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

IAEA team in Japan for final review before planned …

FILE - This photo shows some of about 1,000 huge tanks holding treated but still radioactive wastewater at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), in Okuma town, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 22, 2023. An International Atomic Energy Agency team arrived in Tokyo on Monday, May 29, 2023, for a final review before Japan begins releasing massive amounts of treated radioactive water into the sea from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, a plan that has been strongly opposed by local fishing communities and neighboring countries. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi, File)

Brazil: UN regional group has endorsed Amazon city …

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during a news conference after attending the Group of Seven nations' summit in Hiroshima, western Japan, Monday, May 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Crash of private Japanese moon lander blamed on software, …

FILE - In this photo provided by ispace, engineers and affiliates work on the flight model of the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Lunar Lander at the IABG Space Test Centre in Ottobrunn, Germany, in August 2022. A Tokyo company whose lunar lander slammed into the moon last month says inadequate software and a last-minute switch in the touchdown location led to the crash. Officials for the company ispace said Friday, May 26, 2023 that its spacecraft was originally supposed to land in a flat plain. (ispace Via AP)