Hotter days ahead

Brighter days ahead!

CSP received more than 2,200 article submissions in 2016. This volume reiterates the journal’s importance as a channel for science publication in Public Health and encourages us as Editors to renew our commitment to publishing articles that explore socially relevant research issues with creativity and diversity 1. Throughout 2016, we extended our policy of opening the journal’s pages to current...

Dangerous days ahead: a call to arms.

Resilience in a hotter world.

As the planet warms, storms and floods are becoming wilder--killing thousands, disrupting supply chains and power grids, and causing billions of dollars in damage. Meanwhile, supplies of all kinds of resources are dwindling, and demand is rising. These two megachallenges--extreme weather and resource scarcity--could have an unprecedented impact on corporate profits and global prosperity, warns ...

Hotter nests produce smarter young lizards.

A hatchling reptile's sex, body size and shape, and locomotor performance can be influenced not only by its genes, but also by the temperature that it experiences during incubation. Can incubation temperature also affect a hatchling's cognitive skills? In the scincid lizard Bassiana duperreyi, higher incubation temperatures enhanced the resultant hatchling's learning performance. Hence, factors...

Some like it hotter than others

If you want to meet a truly tough fish, buy a ticket to Lake Magadi, Kenya. Here, the Magadi tilapia swim happily in the hot, alkaline waters of the lake, where oxygen levels soar and plummet daily and water chemistry pushes the boundaries of acid– base regulation. Few fish can survive such an extreme aquatic environment and this has attracted comparative physiologists for decades to the town o...