Winter Events Face Climate Concerns, While Valentine's Day Spending and Super Bowl Economics Draw Attention
As the world gears up for various winter events, climate change concerns loom over the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, while Valentine's Day and the Super Bowl are expected to generate significant economic impact.
The 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy will be greeted with snow blanketing the mountaintops, a welcome sight after concerns from the International Ski Federation over snow levels, according to Time. However, these conditions do not ease the minds of many athletes who believe climate action is paramount to keeping the Games alive. The Italian Alps faced unusually warm weather around the holidays, as the region is being affected by warmer average winter temperatures overall. February temperatures in Cortina have warmed 6.4F since the town first hosted the Winter Olympics in 1956, according to research from Climate Central, Time reported. "It's not just Cortina, climate change is impacting winter weather around the world," according to Climate Central research.
Meanwhile, in Kyiv, Ukraine, residents are finding creative ways to cope with power outages caused by Russian attacks on the country's energy grid. NPR reported that dance parties on a frozen river have become a popular way to keep spirits and bodies warm.
On the consumer front, Valentine's Day is approaching, and Wired reported that many gifts are on sale. The WIRED Reviews team has been hard at work finding all sorts of Valentine's Day deals. From sexy gifts for lovers to date-night boxes to sex toys, they've got plenty of hand-tested recommendations, and many of them are on sale right now.
In the United States, the Super Bowl continues to be a major economic driver. Time reported that the Super Bowl is America’s biggest and most-watched sporting event, drawing in more than 100 million viewers in recent years. The advertisements that air during its broadcast are the subject of widespread discussion and ranking lists. Last year’s Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans generated enormous revenue in everything from ticket sales to concessions to hotel bookings, creating jobs, and pouring money into state tax coffers.
In other news, Nature News reported that a new way of probing nanometre-scale particles of a single chemical element has revealed that they have markedly different properties from larger chunks of the same element. For example, bulk sodium melts at around 98 ºC, whereas sodium nanoparticles melt at 7 ºC.
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