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How extreme heat is changing summer camp

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. A few summers ago, we signed our older kid up for a very...

The world’s oceans just broke a disturbing record

The world’s oceans just broke a disturbing record

The coastal promenade in Trabzon, Turkey, on June 27, 2026, just days after the record-setting ocean temps were recorded on June 21. | Ertugrul Bastan/Anadolu/Getty Images This story originally...

What we lost when everything became a screen

What we lost when everything became a screen

I was the kind of kid who dug holes, the deeper the better. I vividly recall the ecstasy of once splaying out my fingers in a bucket full of backyard dirt, a bliss punctuated only by a sudden...