August 2023

By Yesenia Fuentes, Photo: Yaorusheng/Getty Images, Atmos, July 26, 2023 Stephanie Wills has been legally blind since birth. She was born with chorioretinal coloboma, a condition where a person’s retina does not fully develop in utero. The affliction, which Wills has in both eyes, makes sunlight painful. She often keeps her eyes closed and sleeps during the day to capitalize on the night’s sunless hours. In Panama, the tropical Central American country where Wills lives, sunlight is...

With summer winding down, and about 49 million U.S. student s preparing to head back to the classroom, our History. Culture. Trauma. podcast series examines America's challenged school system and its need for trauma-informed supports and solutions. "In recent years, COVID-19, school shootings, affirmation of LGBTQ students, institutional racism, critical race theory, teacher burnout, and parent's rights have transformed America's schools into cultural battlegrounds," said podcast host Ingrid...

Global map of GISTEMP June surface temperature anomaly relative to the 1951-1980 June baseline. Most of the world is “red” due to warm anomalies, with the highest anomalies around Antarctica and Canada. Credit: NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies By NASA Global Climate Change, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, July 13, 2023 June 2023 was the hottest June on record according to NASA’s global temperature analysis . GISTEMP, NASA’s global temperature analysis, is drawn from...