Beginning this week, leaders from more than 190 countries will gather in Dubai for COP28, the annual climate global summit. This year, the stakes have never been higher: wildfires in Maui, partly exacerbated by drought, killed ...
Environment
Nov 30, 2023
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It's been over 50 years since there was a legal and cultural shift around women keeping their last names when they married. But many women who marry men still opt to change their name to their husband's upon saying, "I do."
Social Sciences
Nov 30, 2023
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Climate disasters are now costing the United States US$150 billion per year, and the economic harm is rising.
Environment
Nov 30, 2023
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New research has exposed how food charity in schools is becoming mainstreamed across England amidst the cost-of-living crisis, welfare cutbacks, and entrenched poverty.
Economics & Business
Nov 29, 2023
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The costs of environmental pollution caused by plastics in cigarette butts and packaging amount to an estimated US $26 billion every year or US $186 billion every 10 years—adjusted for inflation—in waste management and ...
Environment
Nov 29, 2023
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How do you distribute drinking water fairly across an area recently hit by a natural disaster? Or how can you make sure you have enough bottles of water, granola bars and fruit in your delivery van to refill all the vending ...
Mathematics
Nov 27, 2023
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Communities around the world face increasingly severe and frequent impacts from climate change. They are on the "frontlines" of droughts, flooding, desertification and sea level rise.
Environment
Nov 27, 2023
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Over the past few years, international climate policy has been shaped largely by a close-knit group of politicians in the twilight of their careers. Now leaders from beyond the traditional U.S.-Europe-China power center—some ...
Environment
Nov 20, 2023
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Plastic pollution is an urgent environmental issue, globally. Every year, about eight million tons of plastic end up in the oceans.
Environment
Nov 15, 2023
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At the COP27 summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, an agreement to establish a loss and damage fund was hailed as a major breakthrough on one of the trickiest topics in the UN climate change negotiations. In an otherwise frustrating ...
Environment
Nov 10, 2023
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