2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1005+ words) Overlooked ocean foods such as oysters, mussels, shrimp and other invertebrates deliver surprisingly large amounts of essential vitamins and minerals. Fisheries and fish farms report their output in tons, which measures how much food there is but not what’s in…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (878+ words) Climate change is reshaping heat exposure across generations, with young children facing a rapidly growing burden of dangerous humid heat. Up to 560 million children under age 10 – roughly 43% of all kids that age worldwide – are now living through at least an…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1299+ words) In hot, dry, still air, vapor from sweaty skin stalls the airflow that cools the body, cutting sweat evaporation by more than half. People get out of the sun by stepping under a canopy or into a half-finished building. The…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (731+ words) As Alpine glaciers retreat, new vegetation could change which flowers bees visit and how they encounter pathogens. Melting glaciers are reshaping more than mountain landscapes. New research from the Swiss Alps suggests that the vegetation emerging in their wake could…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago   (1198+ words) Drought may raise yellow fever risk by bringing infected monkeys and forest mosquitoes closer to cities, increasing the chances of the virus spreading to people. Wet weather usually means more mosquito-borne disease – more rain, more standing water, more mosquitoes. Yet…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (711+ words) Climate change is raising childhood diarrhea risk across Africa, but access to clean water, electricity, and transportation may help protect children. However, a new study points to something that might soften the blow, and it is not a vaccine or…...