Will humans go extinct? Plus, fixing open offices and catching a 12-ft python

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March 21, 2023

Climate Change Will Humans Ever Go Extinct? It’s probably a matter of when and how, not if, we humans will meet our doom By Stephanie Pappas

Climate Change Scientists Just Warned We Need to Cut Emissions by 60 Percent, but the U.S. Is Years Away The IPCC’s latest climate assessment says the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent by 2035, but the U.S. is already behind on a less ambitious target By Jean Chemnick

Plants The Science of Spring's Green Show Spring’s burst of brightness comes before chloroplasts grow and mature By Clara Moskowitz,Rebecca Konte

Psychology Fixing the Hated Open-Design Office Open-office designs create productivity and health problems. New insights from Deaf and autistic communities could fix them By George Musser

Animals The Strange Way a 12-Foot-Long Invasive Python Was Caught In Key Largo, Fla., scientists are looking to protect endangered native rodents and slow the invasion of massive Burmese pythons By Meghan Bartels

Extraterrestrial Life 'Unstable' Moons May Be Obliterating Alien Life across the Universe Collisions between moons and planets may be a regular danger for possible extraterrestrial life By Briley Lewis,LiveScience

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 4

FROM THE ARCHIVE Deadly Fungi Are the Newest Emerging Microbe Threat All Over the World These pathogens already kill 1.6 million people every year, and we have few defenses against them By Maryn McKenna | June 2021

WHAT WE'RE READING "Everything Living Is Dying": Environmental Ruin in Modern Iraq Decades of war, poverty, and fossil fuel extraction have devastated the country’s environment and its people. By Lynzy Billing | Undark | Dec. 22, 2021

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