Author: Stephanie Spera, Assistant Professor of Geography and the Environment, University of Richmond

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why can’t it always be summer? – Amanda, age 5, Chile With its long days just itching to be spent by water doing nothing, summer really can be an enchanting season. As Jenny Han wrote in the young adult novel “The Summer I Turned Pretty”: “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” But all good things must come to an end, and summer cannot last forever. There’s both a simple…