This Hot Summer Is One of the Coolest of the Rest of Our Lives

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August 31, 2022

Climate Change This Hot Summer Is One of the Coolest of the Rest of Our Lives Heat waves broke temperature records around the world this past summer, but it will still be one of the coolest summers of the next few decades By Andrea Thompson

Animals 13,000 Crabs Crawl into a Museum (Collection) The American Museum of Natural History recently received the life's work of a professor in Minnesota—1,274 jars of crabs collected over decades from around the world. By Luke Groskin

Space Exploration NASA's Next Launch Attempt for Artemis I Will Occur September 3 Technical glitches and questionable weather forecasts continue to delay liftoff for NASA's landmark lunar mission By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Climate Change During a Heat Wave, You Can Blast the AC, but What Does a Squirrel Do? Although recent spikes in temperature affect all of us, our urban critters have had to find their own ways to beat the heat. Sometimes they "sploot. By Ashleigh Papp | 06:39

Public Health A New Way to Measure Heat Risks for People Facing more sizzling summers, Colorado tests a new risk formula that raises the likelihood of health warnings By Markian Hawryluk,Kaiser Health News

Black Holes Black Hole Discovery Helps to Explain Quantum Nature of the Cosmos New insights from black hole research may elucidate the cosmological event horizon By Edgar Shaghoulian

Paleontology New Dinosaur Species Is Oldest Ever Found in Africa A small, speedy, omnivorous dinosaur was a forerunner of Brachiosaurus and other giant plant-eaters  By Riley Black

Geology Ice-Covered Volcanoes Offer Secret Eruption Warning Ice sheets amplify clues from Iceland's hidden volcanoes By Rachel Berkowitz

Public Health Back-to-School Special: Kids, Tests and Long COVID Reassurance This is our back-to-school special episode. We'll talk about why COVID testing is about to become a school problem—and about whether or not kids have risk for long COVID. By Tanya Lewis,Josh Fischman,Tulika Bose | 07:51

Public Health A Community-Led Response Can Help Stem Racial Disparities in COVID Pittsburgh's Black residents are at a high risk of contracting COVID. A Black-led coalition is trying to reduce it By Jamil Bey,Tiffany L. Gary-Webb,Fred Brown,Noble Maseru

Planetary Science Webb Telescope Finds Carbon Dioxide on a Distant Exoplanet The result offers a sneak peek at the observatory's transformative potential for studying worlds beyond the solar system By Shannon Hall,Nature magazine

Public Health A Cure for Vaccine Hesitancy Could Start in Kindergarten Teaching simple basics in school about masks, handwashing and ethics can stave off misconceptions in adulthood By Gary Stix

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.

FROM THE ARCHIVE Risk of Dangerous Heat Exposure Is Growing Quickly in Cities Population growth, climate change and the urban heat island effect are combining to put more people at risk By Andrea Thompson | October 2021

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