Hurricane Ida: How Climate Change Is Influencing Storms

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August 30, 2021

Weather Hurricane Ida: How Climate Change Is Influencing Storms Rising temperatures are increasing the hurricane risks to New Orleans and other coastal area By Stacy Morford,The Conversation US

Public Health U.S. Forces Are Leaving a Toxic Environmental Legacy in Afghanistan Legal and practical obstacles make it difficult to clean the burn pits and health-damaging chemicals that remain at military bases By Kelsey D. Atherton

Policy Fix Disaster Response Now Emergency management leaves out vulnerable groups and is poorly prepared for worsening climate-related disasters By THE EDITORS

Sociology The Pandemic Caused a Baby Bust, Not a Boom Birth rates in many high-income countries declined in the months following the first wave, possibly because of economic uncertainty By Tanya Lewis

Ethics Afghanistan's Terrified Scientists Fear Persecution Reprisals may come for their field of study, their ethnicity or involvement in international collaborations By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Ethics Nonbinary Scientists Want Funding Agencies to Change How they Collect Gender Data Too many surveys fail to include options beyond “male,” “female” and “do not wish to disclose” By Riley DeHority,Román Ramos Báez,Timber Burnette,Lars Howell

Behavior Lessons from Life Choices Made during the Pandemic For a couple working in health care, the decision to get married and have a baby was complicated By Sandhira Wijayaratne

Plants Flashy Plants Attract More Scientists Distinctive species get more attention than rare or endangered plants By Jillian Kramer

Behavior Apple's New Child Safety Technology Might Harm More Kids Than It Helps Features designed to guard against sexual abuse carry the potential for unintended consequences By Elissa Redmiles

Public Health COVID, Quickly, Episode 13: Vaccine Approval, Breakthrough Infections, Boosters Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio | 06:26

Public Health YouTube's Plan to Showcase Credible Health Information Is Flawed, Experts Warn Search results may include a special section with videos from sources that are deemed reliable By Grant Currin

Sociology Why We Rally around Some Social Issues and Not Others The answer involves an experiment with strange results and a dive into irrationality By Clara Vandeweerdt

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Mind, Volume 32, Issue 5

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FROM THE ARCHIVE On the Louisiana Coast, an Indigenous Community Loses Homes to Climate Change For the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, climate change has forced a permanent retreat inland By Duy Linh Tu,Julian Lim | June 2021

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