Climate Change Will Force Us to Rethink Migration and Asylum

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April 22, 2021

Climate Climate Change Will Force Us to Rethink Migration and Asylum It will become increasingly untenable to reduce U.S. immigration and asylum policy to a question of border security By Zoë Carpenter,The Nation

Policy & Ethics Biden Promises to Slash Greenhouse Gas Emissions 50 Percent by 2030 The goal sets a high bar for other countries attending today's global climate summit By Scott Waldman,E&E News

Space NASA's Perseverance Rover Makes Oxygen on Mars for First Time The technique could someday help astronauts sustainably live and work on the Red Planet By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Environment National Park Nature Walks: A New Pop-Up Podcast Series Take an acoustic journey into some of the most unique places in the country By Jacob Job

Public Health How Real-World Data Can Help Us Better Prepare for the Next Pandemic Rapid testing is important, but there's a wealth of other information that could have offered us quicker insight into the spread of COVID By Joseph Menzin,Peter Neumann

Environment Wildfire Recovery Aided with Planting Model A new tool can help land managers focus their efforts to restore forests By Susan Cosier

EARTH A Healthy Environment as a Human Right U.N. recognition would strengthen legal arguments for preserving nature By Katarina Zimmer,Knowable Magazine

Cognition What It's Like to Have Face Blindness during the Pandemic Before COVID, I would often be embarrassed when I didn't recognize someone while walking my dog. Not now By Daniel Gibbs

Public Health India's Massive COVID Surge Puzzles Scientists The virus is spreading faster than ever before in the country despite previous high infection rates in megacities, which should have conferred some protection By Smriti Mallapaty,Nature magazine

Policy & Ethics Science Policy Can't Be Simply about Science As early-career researchers, we argue that it also has to prioritize justice and social equity By Kavitha Chintam,Jennifer L. Brown,Brian S. Canter,Ryan B. Dudek,Marie Fiori,Sarah Hall,Christopher Jackson,Sindhu Nathan,Bernat Navarro-Serer,Meredith Schmehl,Melody Tan,Meredith Ward,Caitlin Warlick-Short,Isabel Warner

Space China Is Set to Launch First Module of Massive Space Station The new orbiting laboratory will host research from Chinese and international scientists By Ling Xin

Computing Algorithm Virtually Unfolds a Historical Letter without Unsealing It In the centuries before envelopes, "letterlocking" secured a message's information By Sophie Bushwick

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FROM THE ARCHIVE The Ominous Story of Syria's Climate Refugees Farmers who have escaped the battle-torn nation explain how drought and government abuse have driven social violence By John Wendle | December 2015

QUOTE OF THE DAY "It's quite clear that the frequency and severity of these [natural disaster] events has increased and that is indeed a factor preventing development, preventing the improvement of the lives of children and families, and a factor in pushing migration." Carlos Carerra, the Guatemala country representative for UNICEF

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