The spread of species beyond their native habitat is a human-made environmental change on a global scale. Among vascular plants, over 16,000 species have now permanently settled in foreign countries.

Photosynthesis changed Earth in powerful ways. When photosynthetic organisms appeared, it led to the Great Oxygenation Event. That allowed multicellular life to evolve and resulted in the ozone layer.

If you missed these incredible sculptures at last weekend’s Queens Art Express, you can still see Bollinger’s work at SculptureCenter in LIC. Veggies growing in midair, crops that tweet when they’re ...