【推荐1】Traditional festivals have made a comeback. Spring Festival celebrations have just ended, Qingming (Tomb Sweeping) Festival is on the way (April 5), followed by Duanwu (Dragon Boat) Festival (June 14) Later, there will be the Mid-Autumn (Moon) Festival (Sept.22) and Chongyang Festival (Senior's Festival) (Oct, 16).China currently has about 10,000 traditional festivals among is 56 ethnic groups.

Nobody really questioned whether we needed more holidays until 2004 when a pubic debate took place about the popularity of some Western festivals and the waning influence of traditional festivals. The key message was: Traditional festivals are "important and therefore they need protection".

But many people, especially the young, say they are not interested in these festivals. Instead, they are embracing Western Festivals and holidays such 25 Christmas Day, Valentine's Day Halloween, Thanksgiving Day, and even April Fool's Day.

A commonly heard reason for this thinking is: "Traditional festivals are boring, old stuff" while Western festivals are "much more interesting and exciting". Meanwhile, concerned scholars want to preserve traditional festivals that "are vital elements of our unique historical legacy, and cultural identity".

If we really want to save our traditions, we should worry about the lack of content. Take Spring Festival for example, in the past, people did a lot of interesting activities, as shown in popular costume dramas such as Dream of the Red Mansion. But today, most people just eat, let off fireworks, play mahjong or watch gala shows.

To revitalize traditional festivals, we should not blame young people for blindly following Western festivals and Western culture but should change the way we celebrate traditional festivals. For instance, for Qingmng Festival, young netizens are establishing online cemeteries to mourn their deceased family members or deceased pets.

With new forms and novel ideas, I believe traditional festivals can stay forever young and always be appealing, here and abroad.

【推荐2】Not long after the pandemic started, researchers began to document declines in child and adolescence mental health. The numbers are stark.

Hospital emergency room visits spiked for suspected suicide attempts among girls ages 12 to 17,according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From February to March 2021, the number jumped by 51 percent compared with the same period during 2019.For boys, the increase was 4 percent Early research from MIT suggested the suicide rate for people aged 10 to 19 increased in 2020, compared with before the pandemic. More recently, CDC provisional data for 2021 showed an increase in the national rate from 2020 to 2021,especially for people ages 15 to 24.

In other research, the CDC found nearly 45 percent of high school students were so constantly sad or hopeless in 2021 that they were unable to engage in regular activities. Almost I in 5 seriously considered suicide, and 9 percent of the teenagers surveyed by the CDC tried to take their lives during the previous 12months. Family upheaval (变故), meanwhile, was widespread, particularly in the early pandemic: Nearly 30percent of students said an adult in their home had lost a job, and 24 percent said they went hungry for a lack of food.

There are no directly comparable per-pandemic studies, but Kathleen Ether. the CDC’s director of the division of adolescent and school health, said student well-being is significantly better for teens who report feeling connected to their schools - a problem for a population that, nationwide, was kept out of them for so long. There is 20 years of research showing that it not only has an impact on how young people do while they’re adolescents, but it has 20-year impacts on all kinds of measures of health, including emotional well-being, suicidality and substance (违禁药物) use, she said.

It also left many children grieving. More than 230,000 U.S, students under 18 are believed to be mourning the ultimate loss: the death of a parent or primary caregiver in a pandemic-related loss, according to research by the CDC, Imperial College London, Harvard University, Oxford University and the University of Cape Town. In the United States, children of color were hit the hardest, another study found.It estimated that Black and Hispanic children had a higher rate of caregiver loss at nearly twice that of White children.

【推荐3】Arctic sea ice has been steadily decreasing since the beginning of satellite records in 1979, but a new study comes with a chilling prediction: By the end of this century, Arctic sea ice may disappear during the summer, which could drive polar bears and other ice-dependent species to extinction (灭绝).

The “Last Ice Area” is a region containing the oldest, thickest Arctic ice. It spans an area of more than 1 millon square kilometers from the western coast of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago to Greenland’s northern coast. When scientists named the 4-meter-thick ice region, they thought it would last for decades.

But now, under both the most optimistic and pessimistic scenarios (情形) for warming linked to climate change, the sea ice will severely thin by 2050. The most optimistic scenario, in which carbon emissions (排放) are immediately curbed to prevent the worst warming, could result in a limited part of the ice surviving in the region. In the most pessimistic scenario, in which emissions continue at their current rate of increase, the summer ice—and the polar bears and seals that live on it—could disappear by 2100, researchers reported in a new study.

“Unfortunately, this is a massive experiment we’re doing,” study co-author Robert Newton, a senior research scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, said in a statement. “If the year-round ice goes away, entire ice-dependent ecosystems will break apart, and something new will begin.”

As carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases increasingly contribute to the warming of the atmosphere, the past 15 years has brought the lowest 15 sea-ice extents (范围) in the satellite record, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Worse still, the NSIDC reports that the amount of older, thicker Arctic ice that has survived at least one melt season is at a record low. A more noticeable decrease in ice coverage could have a serious effect on the lives of the creatures that live on, or under, the shifting ice network, including photosynthetic algae, tiny crustaceans, fish, seals, narwhals, bowhead whales and polar bears.