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Older adults are the most likely to die from extreme heat, and this crisis will worsen in the coming years. A deadly heat wave gripped large regions of Asia for weeks in April and May 2024. As temperatures climbed past 110 degrees Fahrenheit in India on May 7, campaigning politicians, local news announcers, and voters waiting in long lines passed out from the oppressive heat.

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As protests erupted across college campuses this spring amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, Arizona State University (ASU) president Michael Crow—who runs a large state institution with nearly 80,000 students enrolled on campus and more than 65,000 online—was not immune from the heat. In late April, pro-Palestian protesters erected an encampment on the school’s Tempe, Ariz.

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Enlarge / 2023 marked the first sighting of a yellow-legged hornet in the United States, sparking fears that it may spread and devastate honeybees as it has in parts of Europe. (credit: Miguel Riopa/AFP via Getty Images) In early August 2023, a beekeeper near the port of Savannah, Georgia, noticed some odd activity around his hives.