Plus, Florida wildlife gets a win, human body temperatures and the U.S. Southeast cool, and green aviation.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY ANNE BENTZ, EYEEM/GETTY IMAGES | | When a greyhound in Paris developed pus-filled lesions on its body, its owners realized that they had given monkeypox to their pet. The announcement alarmed dog owners who worry whether their pets are vulnerable to the disease—and whether these companion animals could give the virus back to them.
Among researchers, the greater concern is that this virus might jump into rodents or other wild animals, reports Sharon Guynup for National Geographic. “That could make monkeypox nearly impossible to eradicate,” says Mike Ryan, executive director of the Health Emergencies Programme at the World Health Organization.
Here’s how to protect your pet—and yourself.
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| Can flying go green? Though jet fuel-powered planes will likely be around for decades to come, scientists are exploring electric planes or hydrogen-powered models like the Flying-V, pictured above and on our Instagram page. Developed by Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, the passengers, cargo, and fuel would be held in the wings. Nat Geo reports the radical design, known as blended wing body, may prove to be 20 percent more efficient than conventional airplanes.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY CARLTON WARD JR. | | Keeping Florida wild: With the population in Florida rising by more than a thousand people a day, the delicate balance of ecosystems, the animals that inhabit them (pictured above, a bobcat triggers a camera trap on the newly protected Hendrie Ranch), and even humans’ quality of life grow increasingly at risk. State officials and conservationists have been working to protect the Florida Wildlife Corridor, a green network of open spaces stretching through the state.
“We need to accelerate the pace of conservation to a rate of 10,000 acres per month to keep up with development and ensure the Corridor is connected,” says Tori Linder, managing director with Path of the Panther, an organization supported by the National Geographic Society. Such a rate is possible, Nat Geo reports.
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| | Catch a Comet: Sky watchers armed with binoculars and telescopes can easily hunt down a comet this Friday due to its position sandwiched between two moderately bright stars in the evening sky. Comet PanSTARRS (C/2017 K2) is an icy visitor from the Oort Cloud at the edge of the solar system. Discovered back in 2017, the gaseous cometary head is 10 times larger than Earth and is slowly brightening as it heads to round the sun in December.
This week the faint comet is flying through constellation Scorpius, between its naked-eye stars Graffias and Dschubba that represent the arachnoid’s right claw. Early risers on Thursday and Friday looking toward the east at dawn can catch the whisker-thin, crescent moon gliding past the brilliant planet Venus. And by Monday the moon will have popped back into the evening skies and will be positioned near the faint planet Mercury in the west at dusk.
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 | | Every single day of my walk, my real destination is people. | | | | Paul Salopek | Journalist, Nat Geo Explorer on a 24,000-mile walk across the world
Watch a short film of his first 1,000 miles through China | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY GILES PRICE, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | A ‘normal’ body temperature? For 150 years, 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit was thought to be the average body temperature for a healthy human being (above, an infrared view shows the body heat of people at Jubilee Gardens in London). But that number is wrong. Here’s what it really is.
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| This newsletter has been curated and edited by Heather Kim, Sydney Combs, Alissa Swango, Amy McKeever, Allie Yang, and Janey Adams. Have an idea or a link? We'd love to hear from you at david.beard@natgeo.com. Thanks for reading. | |
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