U.S. Heat Deaths Will Soar as the Climate Crisis Worsens

Natural Disasters

Congressional Budget Turmoil Stops FEMA from Doling out $8 Billion

Puerto Rico will be hit hardest by spending restrictions set by FEMA as disaster funding runs short. More than $2 billion is expected to be withheld from the island, which is still reeling from past hurricanes...

Thomas Frank and E&E News

Medicine

Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S.

Sarah Loguen Fraser was the daughter of abolitionists and one of the first African American female doctors trained after the Civil War.

Nora Mathison, Katie Hafner and The Lost Women of Science Initiative

Climate Change

Classifying Heat Waves Will Help People Better Understand Their Dangers

Climate change is making heat waves stronger and longer. Naming and ranking them like we do with hurricanes will make governments, companies and people take hot days more seriously...

Gina Jiménez | Opinion

Medicine

Precision Medicine Has Been Overhyped

A new book argues that genomics is overshadowing environmental and social solutions to better health for all

Hannah Docter-Loeb

Computing

Don’t Blame AI. Plagiarism Is Turning Digital News into Hot Garbage

A botched obituary underlines threats from both artificial intelligence and digital plagiarism mills to pollute the news with misinformation

Charles Seife | Opinion