For India’s garbage pickers, a miserable and dangerous job made worse by extreme heat
As many as 4 million people in India scratch out a living searching through landfills for anything they can sell.
Summer camps are for getting kids outdoors, but more frequent heat waves force changes
As the first heat wave of the season ripples across the U.S., summer camps are working to keep their children cool while still letting the kids enjoy being outside with…
How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart
When dangerous heat waves strike, what happens inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees.
Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likely
Daytime temperatures that triggered cases of heat stroke in parts of the United States were 35 times more likely and 2.5 degrees hotter.
A realistic way to protect kids from social media? Find a middle ground
A growing number of experts say the most realistic and effective way of teaching children about social media is a slow, deliberate onboarding, rather than an outright ban or allowing…
Life as a teen without social media isn’t easy. These families are navigating adolescence offline
The damaging consequences of social media are increasingly well documented, so some parents are trying to raise their children with restrictions or blanket bans on social media use.
In their own words: What young people wish they’d known about social media
Kids constantly hear about the downsides of social media from the adults in their lives, often in the form of dire warnings and commands.
In Indonesia, women ranger teams go on patrol to slow deforestation
A female-led group of forest rangers in Indonesia are defying social norms to lead patrols in the jungle to combat deforestation.