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Ants are one of the most common and unwelcome household pests.  While rains can help keep populations in-check by flooding nests and drowning adult ants, dry weather and drought can send them searching for food and water.  Warm, dry summer weather is prime ant-invasion time! Viewer Tip: There are easy steps you can take at home to keep ants [...]

In an average summer in the U.S., about 1500 people die from excesssive heat events.  Excessive heat may disproportionately affect people in cities, where paved roads, buildings, and other “hard” surfaces absorb and trap heat from the sun.  This “urban heat island effect” means that cities do not cool down at night like rural areas do, offering [...]

The American Lung Association’s 2008 State of the Air Report found that about one-third of people in the U.S. live an an area with unhealthful levels of ground-level ozone pollution, and Atlanta ranked number 12 on the list of 25 cities with the highest number of high-ozone days.  Ozone pollution, which forms when emissions from vehicles, yard care [...]

One of summer’s favorite treats is sweet corn, but the same hot weather that brings us the crop makes its sweetness short-lived once it’s picked. At 86° F, more than half of the sugars in an ear of corn may convert to starch in a single day. Whether you’re growing your own corn in the [...]

Each year in the U.S., an average of six magnitude 6 or higher and 57 magnitude 5 or higher earthquakes occur. There is a common belief that earthquakes occur more frequently during hot and dry weather, but scientists have never found a correlation between weather and earthquake activity.  Because earthquakes originate miles below ground, they are [...]

The U.S. is home to more than 200 species of mosquito!  Each species has unique behaviors and bites certain types of animals, but all mosquitoes have the same, four stage life-cycle. Egg: After a female mosquito has a blood meal (males do not bite), she lays her eggs in a place where they will be exposed to water [...]

The U.S. is home to more than 200 species of mosquito!  Each species has unique behaviors and bites certain types of animals, but all mosquitoes have the same, four stage life-cycle. Egg: After a female mosquito has a blood meal (males do not bite), she lays her eggs in a place where they will be exposed to water [...]

The U.S. is home to more than 200 species of mosquito!  Each species has unique behaviors and bites certain types of animals, but all mosquitoes have the same, four stage life-cycle. Egg: After a female mosquito has a blood meal (males do not bite), she lays her eggs in a place where they will be exposed to water [...]

The U.S. is home to more than 200 species of mosquito!  Each species has unique behaviors and bites certain types of animals, but all mosquitoes have the same, four stage life-cycle. Egg: After a female mosquito has a blood meal (males do not bite), she lays her eggs in a place where they will be exposed to water [...]

The U.S. is home to more than 200 species of mosquito!  Each species has unique behaviors and bites certain types of animals, but all mosquitoes have the same, four stage life-cycle. Egg: After a female mosquito has a blood meal (males do not bite), she lays her eggs in a place where they will be exposed to water [...]

The U.S. is home to more than 200 species of mosquito!  Each species has unique behaviors and bites certain types of animals, but all mosquitoes have the same, four stage life-cycle. Egg: After a female mosquito has a blood meal (males do not bite), she lays her eggs in a place where they will be exposed to water [...]

The U.S. is home to more than 200 species of mosquito!  Each species has unique behaviors and bites certain types of animals, but all mosquitoes have the same, four stage life-cycle. Egg: After a female mosquito has a blood meal (males do not bite), she lays her eggs in a place where they will be exposed to water [...]

The U.S. is home to more than 200 species of mosquito!  Each species has unique behaviors and bites certain types of animals, but all mosquitoes have the same, four stage life-cycle. Egg: After a female mosquito has a blood meal (males do not bite), she lays her eggs in a place where they will be exposed to water [...]

The U.S. is home to more than 200 species of mosquito!  Each species has unique behaviors and bites certain types of animals, but all mosquitoes have the same, four stage life-cycle. Egg: After a female mosquito has a blood meal (males do not bite), she lays her eggs in a place where they will be exposed to water [...]

The U.S. is home to more than 200 species of mosquito!  Each species has unique behaviors and bites certain types of animals, but all mosquitoes have the same, four stage life-cycle. Egg: After a female mosquito has a blood meal (males do not bite), she lays her eggs in a place where they will be exposed to water [...]

The U.S. is home to more than 200 species of mosquito!  Each species has unique behaviors and bites certain types of animals, but all mosquitoes have the same, four stage life-cycle. Egg: After a female mosquito has a blood meal (males do not bite), she lays her eggs in a place where they will be exposed to water [...]

The U.S. is home to more than 200 species of mosquito!  Each species has unique behaviors and bites certain types of animals, but all mosquitoes have the same, four stage life-cycle. Egg: After a female mosquito has a blood meal (males do not bite), she lays her eggs in a place where they will be exposed to water [...]

The U.S. is home to more than 200 species of mosquito!  Each species has unique behaviors and bites certain types of animals, but all mosquitoes have the same, four stage life-cycle. Egg: After a female mosquito has a blood meal (males do not bite), she lays her eggs in a place where they will be exposed to water [...]

The U.S. is home to more than 200 species of mosquito!  Each species has unique behaviors and bites certain types of animals, but all mosquitoes have the same, four stage life-cycle. Egg: After a female mosquito has a blood meal (males do not bite), she lays her eggs in a place where they will be exposed to water [...]

The U.S. is home to more than 200 species of mosquito!  Each species has unique behaviors and bites certain types of animals, but all mosquitoes have the same, four stage life-cycle. Egg: After a female mosquito has a blood meal (males do not bite), she lays her eggs in a place where they will be exposed to water [...]