What Air Pollution in South Korea Can Teach the World about Misinformation

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June 27, 2022

Pollution What Air Pollution in South Korea Can Teach the World about Misinformation Tracking how misinformation campaigns begin and amplify can give scientists tools to combat them By Dongwook Kim,Seoha Park,Seungkook Roh

Education Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom Oil and gas representatives influence the standards for courses and textbooks, from kindergarten to 12th grade By Katie Worth

Climate Change Global Warming Causes Fewer Tropical Cyclones But those that do form have a greater chance of becoming intense storms By Andrea Thompson

Renewable Energy We Need to Make 'Electrifying Everything' Easier Incentives and remodeling need to be more straightforward and equitable if we expect people to convert their homes away from fossil fuels By The Editors

Vaccines Kids' Vaccines at Last and Challenges in Making New Drugs: COVID, Quickly, Episode 33 On this episode of the COVID, Quickly podcast, we discuss some parents breathing a collective sigh of relief and the paradox of how effective vaccines can make it harder to create new drugs to treat patients who get the coronavirus. By Tanya Lewis,Josh Fischman,Jeffery DelViscio | 08:25

Weather How Connected Cars Can Map Urban Heat Islands Crowdsourced vehicle data trace the contours of dangerous city temperatures By Rachel Berkowitz

Climate Change U.S. Jump-Starts Effort to Curb Residential CO2 Emissions The project will retrofit older homes and apartment buildings to be more energy efficient By John Fialka,E&E News

Psychology How Parents' Trauma Leaves Biological Traces in Children Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways By Rachel Yehuda

Natural Disasters Why Was Afghanistan's Magnitude 5.9 Earthquake So Devastating? Famed seismologist Lucy Jones explains how building methods and quake dynamics interact—and what to do about the problem By Sasha Warren

Reproduction Primary Care Providers Can Help Safeguard Abortion As abortion access becomes more limited in the U.S., primary care providers can and should provide these services to people who need them By Diana Carvajal,Casandra Cashman,Ian Lague

Particle Physics How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs's Life A new biography of the physicist and the particle he predicted reveals his disdain for the spotlight By Clara Moskowitz

FROM THE STORE The Science of Climate Change As evidence for human interference in the Earth's climate continues to accumulate, scientists have gained a better understanding of when, where and how the impacts of global warming are being felt. In this eBook, we examine those impacts on the planet, on human society and on the plant and animal kingdoms, as well as effective mitigation strategies including resourceful urban design and smart carbon policies. *Editor's Note: This Collector's Edition was published as Climate Change. The eBook adaptation contains all of the articles, but some of the artwork has been removed to optimize viewing on tablet devices.

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