The newspaper reports that higher rates of sunburn and ice cream consumption correspond. Does that mean that eating ice cream can put you at risk of sunburn? What might be the reason behind this phenomenon?

It doesn't mean that eating ice cream can put you at risk of sunburn because ice cream in itself doesn't cause sunburn. It just means that the more ice cream one consumes, the more cool the person will feel internally and the more likely the person will be able to stay under direct sunlight without wanting to depart as quickly as the person would have done without ice cream.

Step-by-step explanation:

Well, it corresponds doesn't necessarily mean that eating ice cream causes sunburn.

As a matter of fact, in mathematics,

we say two things or objects or parameters correspond when they appear in the same place in two similar situations.

Now back to the question, the reasoning behind that is: when people eat ice cream, they tend to do so when there is hot sunshine and the cooling effect of the ice cream allows them to manage to stay longer under the direct sunlight without wanting to leave so quickly as they would have done if they didn't take the ice cream.

So, in order words they are at a higher risk of sunburn because the more ice cream they consume, the more the cooling effect in their body and the more they can bear staying longer under the direct sunlight.