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How to keep your home cool in extreme heat
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How to keep your home cool in extreme heat

Across the contiguous US, the average temperature for August 2020 was 74.7 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 2.6 degrees above the 20th-century average and the third-hottest August on record. With climate change…

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The expanding range of ticks and mosquitoes

Warming temperatures are allowing disease causing insects to survive further north than ever before. Vector control is currently the only viable solution to combating mosquito and tick-borne illnesses as vaccines…