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ClimateCentral: "Fastest-Warming U.S. Congressional Districts."

"Ahead of the 2026 midterms, a new Climate Central analysis shows how climate change has altered the voting landscape in the U.S." All 435 U.S. congressional districts have warmed since 1970—by 2.8°F on average. 

"The fastest-warming U.S. congressional districts are in the Southwest." Human-caused climate change is the leading cause—accounting for 91% of the warming in each district, on average. 

"Despite this widespread, human-caused warming, only 47% of U.S. adults believe that they have personally experienced the effects of global warming." 

"This Climate Matters analysis is based on open-access data from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC)...though the YPCCC bears no responsibility for the analyses or interpretations of the data presented here."

You—yes, you—need to make the conscious decision to actively initiate conversations about the weirding climate with not just friends + acquaintances but also people you have just met. I know this is hard for most people to do, but since climate deterioration affects the whole world, we cant leave anybody behind 

And we need as high a proportion of the population as possible to participate. So—batten down the hatches—but all hands on deck, not hiding in steerage.

We’ve discovered more than 6,000 planets orbiting other stars, but we haven’t found another Earth.

Astrophysicist Erika Hamden explains that finding a planet is very different from finding a place we could survive. Some have no solid surface to stand on. Others are too hot or too cold and even a rocky planet could have an atmosphere we can’t breathe. For now, Earth is the only home we know.

This project is part of IF/THEN®, an initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies.

Your brain may have once been two separate organs! 🧠

Scientists long thought the whole brain grew from a single group of embryonic cells. But a new study of mouse embryos found it actually develops from two, one forming the forebrain and the other the hindbrain. Similar trends in chickens and zebrafish suggest that over 500 million years ago, evolution may have brought two separate nervous systems together to form the brain.