A sweeping study for the first time tallies butterfly data from more than 76,000 surveys across the continental United States. The results: Butterflies -- all of them -- are disappearing.

A pair of dorcas copper butterflies, a North America native species, and one of the 324 species studied in this report. Butterflies are disappearing in the United States. All kinds of them.

Tehila is a long short story that formed part of my high school’s Hebrew Literature syllabus. The unnamed narrator is a visitor from overseas just arriving in the Jerusalem of the 1920’s for some ...