Why Extreme Heat Is So Deadly

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July 22, 2021

Public Health Why Extreme Heat Is So Deadly Heat waves kill more people than any other type of severe weather in the U.S. And climate change is making them more frequent and unpredictable By Tanya Lewis

Policy & Ethics Weed Shouldn't Be Banned for Elite Athletes, Some Experts Say The disqualification of a leading U.S. Olympics candidate has brought the World Anti-Doping Agency's marijuana prohibition under fire By Diana Kwon

Public Health Wildfire Smoke Drives People Indoors, Raising COVID Risk The particulates in smoke also cause lung inflammation that may make people more susceptible to the virus By Aaron Bolton,Kaiser Health News

Space InSight Lander Makes Best-Yet Maps of Martian Depths The NASA mission used seismic waves from marsquakes to perform a core-to-crust survey of the planet's subsurface By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Climate What to Expect from the Next Major Global Climate Report Next month the IPCC will begin releasing its periodic assessment of the state of climate science By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Public Health Should Children Get COVID Vaccines? What the Science Says With vaccination campaigns underway in some countries while others weigh the options, Nature looks at the evidence for vaccinating younger people By Heidi Ledford,Nature magazine

Space Massive Machines Are Bringing Giant Exoplanets Down to Earth Scientists are using football-field-sized lasers, warehouse-sized electromagnets and other immense facilities to reveal the deep secrets of planetary interiors By Adam Frank

Evolution These Dinosaurs Had a Complicated Air Conditioner in Their Skull Cooling 5,000-pound, armor-plated giants was no small feat. By Aaron Martin

Space Hardy Microbes Hint at Possibilities for Extraterrestrial Life Studies of extreme ecosystems on Earth can guide the search for Martian life and may reveal the fundamental limits of biology By Brianne Palmer

Climate Australia's Criticisms of Proposal to List Great Barrier Reef as 'in Danger' Don't Stack Up The UNESCO World Heritage Site is under pressure from pollution and climate change By Terry Hughes,Jon C. Day,Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

Policy & Ethics Trans and Queer People in India Should Demand Better Health Care The country's gender and sexual minorities are in urgent need of a supportive public health system By Sayantan Datta

Policy & Ethics For Good Science, You Need Engaged Citizens They strengthen the institutions that ensure a strong democracy, leading to rational decisions By Gregory E. Kaebnick,Michael K. Gusmano

Evolution Moths Have an Acoustic Invisibility Cloak to Stay under Bats' Radar New research finds they fly around on noise-cancelling wings By Karen Hopkin | 02:45

Weather Western Drought Has Lasted Longer Than the Dust Bowl Dry conditions have drawn down reservoirs, fueled massive wildfires and stunted crops By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Climate China Launches World's Largest Carbon Market: But Is It Ambitious Enough? Experts welcome the trading scheme, but question whether it is up to the task of helping China achieve its climate goals By Bianca Nogrady,Nature magazine

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 325, Issue 2

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Heat and Humidity Are Already Reaching the Limits of Human Tolerance Events with extreme temperatures and humidity are occurring twice as often now as they were 40 years ago By Andrea Thompson | May 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "In an average year in the U.S., heat kills more people than any other type of extreme weather." Kristina Dahl, senior climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists

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