COVID Vaccine Authorized for Kids Age 5 to 11

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November 01, 2021

Vaccines COVID Vaccine Authorized for Kids Age 5 to 11 The FDA's decision to expand eligibility for the Pfizer vaccine to young kids could mean less illness, safer school and more freedom By Tara Haelle

Climate Change As Biden Heads to Climate Talks, Supreme Court Move Could Stymie EPA Regulation The court made a stunning decision to hear a challenge to the agency's authority to restrict greenhouse gas emissions By Lesley Clark,Niina H. Farah,Pamela King,E&E News

Animals Dog and Cat 'Moms' and 'Dads' Really Are Parenting Their Pets Evolutionary science suggests that humans nurture their pets like they do human children By Shelly Volsche,The Conversation US

Psychology A Change to the Sound of the Voice Can Change Your Very Self-Identity A French physician explains what happened to some of his patients By Guillaume Jacquemont

Behavior Other People Don't Think You're a Mess Individuals often overestimate how harshly others judge them. But self-compassion can help build a more balanced, healthy perspective By Anna Bruk

Climate Change Spending Bill Marks Largest U.S. Climate Investment, 'But the Job Is Not Done' Reconciliation legislation provides $555 billion in climate and clean energy spending By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Climate Change A Quick Guide to Climate Change Jargon (Ahead of COP26) What experts mean by mitigation, carbon neutral and six other key terms By Wändi Bruine de Bruin,The Conversation US

Climate Change IPCC, You've Made Your Point: Humans Are a Primary Cause of Climate Change It's time to redirect your major focus to how we deal with the problem By Naomi Oreskes

Animals These Bugs Produce Smelly Defenses That Need to Be Heard to Be Believed You read that right. Researchers have taken the chemical defenses of some insects and turned them into sounds, which, it turns out, repel people just as well. By Karen Hopkin | 07:21

Vaccines How COVID Vaccines for Young Kids Could Change the Pandemic As U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers recommend authorizing shots for children aged five to 11, researchers predict what this might mean for populations By Max Kozlov,Nature magazine

Climate Change Four Key Issues to Watch at the Upcoming Climate Summit World leaders will soon be arriving in Glasgow to hammer out details on limiting the worst impacts of climate change By Rachel Kyte,The Conversation US

Climate Change Climate Change Drives Escalating Drought The past two decades have seen some of the most extreme dry periods in U.S. history By Clara Moskowitz,Cédric Scherer,Georgios Karamanis

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Should Children Get COVID Vaccines? What the Science Says With vaccination campaigns underway in some countries while others weigh the options, Nature looks at the evidence for vaccinating younger people By Heidi Ledford,Nature magazine | July 2021

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