The Guardian

• Joe Rogan claims study shows Earth cooling – but report’s authors say he’s wrong

  Scientists say ‘old-school denier nonsense’ isn’t helpful as podcaster repeatedly airs false claim on his show

  For months now, the popular comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan has been telling his vast audience of a study that shows Earth is cooling – even though this research states the complete opposite.

  Rogan’s false claim about the climate crisis, which he has repeatedly aired on the Joe Rogan Experience, one of the world’s most popular podcasts, has exasperated the scientists who authored the research.

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• How to protect US students from heat in schools – and is it time to rethink summer break?

  US schools were built for a cooler climate that no longer exists. Now they face record-high temperatures

  As schools are returning to session following one of the hottest summers ever recorded, districts are faced with a new problem: how to handle increasingly extreme heatwaves, both in and outside the classroom.

  Unbearably hot days are no longer just a summer problem. In the US districts from the north-east to the mountain west to the deep south are shortening days, delaying openings, and reworking calendars as temperatures spike during August and September, the typical back-to-school months.

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• Hundreds of staff at California national parks to unionize amid Trump turmoil

  More than 97% at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon parks voted to unionize as president enacts major cuts

  Hundreds of staff at two of California’s most popular national parks have voted to unionize, a move that comes during a troubled summer for the National Park Service, which has seen the Trump administration enact unprecedented staff and budget cuts.

  In an election held between July and August, more than 97% of workers at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon national parks voted in support of organizing a union, according to a statement from the National Federation of Federal Employees. The Federal Labor Relations Authority certified the results last week.

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• Eight-year-old loses ‘significant amount of blood’ after shark attack in Florida

  Authorities said the boy, who survived and was hospitalized, was bitten while snorkelling near Key Largo

  An eight-year-old child suffered “a significant amount of blood loss” after he was bitten by a shark as he was snorkelling near Key Largo on Monday, authorities in Florida said.

  The boy survived and was taken by helicopter to hospital in Miami for treatment to a leg wound above the knee. His condition was unknown on Tuesday morning, but local media reports described his wounds as “severe”.

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• Trump team’s contentious climate report ‘makes a mockery of science’, experts say

  Over 85 top climate specialists lambasted administration’s review, calling it a ‘shoddy mess’ that downplays risks

  A group of the US’s leading climate scientists have compiled a withering review of a controversial Trump administration report that downplays the risks of the climate crisis, finding that the document is biased, riddled with errors and fails basic scientific credibility.

  More than 85 climate experts have contributed to a comprehensive 434-page report that excoriates a US Department of Energy (DOE) document written by five hand-picked fringe researchers that argues that global heating and its resulting consequences have been overstated.

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