Abstracts: Deep Corals, Climate Refugees, and More

• The US has resettled its very first climate refugees — residents of a waterlogged Louisiana island that has begun its descent underwater. (New York Times)

An iceberg on the eastern side of the Northwest Passage. The fabled waterway is becoming a draw for a new wave of tourism. Visual by U.S. Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Dan Rea

• What’s buzzing our telescopes? A neutrino detector at the South Pole has been detecting extremely high-energy bursts of neutrinos, the source of which is still unknown. (New Scientist)

• Reports of ISIS fighters using drugs may seem alarming, but society has a long history of waging war while high. (Aeon)

• The Northwest Passage used to draw explorers searching for a trade route. Today, it’s drawing more and more tourists. What will the new industry mean for the health of this wild region? (Pacific Standard)

• Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital is going public with its mistakes on a blog about medical errors in an effort to learn from previous problems. (STAT)

• In the cold, dim twilight zone beneath the waters of Vanuatu, a group of scientific divers is investigating corals very different from the ones we’re used to. (BioGraphic)

• Politicians don’t just have to change minds, they have to change brains — neurobiology naturally makes the brain resistant to the combination of new information and overwhelming data. (Scientific American)

• And finally, talk is tweets: what the climate conversation looks like on Twitter, mapped. (Carbon Brief)