Access to safe, clean water is a basic human right. But water scarcity or barriers to access can cause conflict within and between countries.
Earth Sciences
Jul 3, 2023
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Southeast Asia's Mekong may be the most important river in the world. Known as the "mother of waters," it is home to the world's largest inland fishery, and the huge amounts of sediments it transports feed some of the planet's ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 4, 2023
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In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 caused an estimated 22 million job losses (13% of the total workforce). Congress' new $900 billion pandemic relief package is the second largest in U.S. history, but it only extends federal ...
Social Sciences
Jan 28, 2021
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Researchers from Texas A&M University published new research in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science, which shows that retailers' branded mobile apps are very effective in increasing customer engagement, increasing sales ...
Economics & Business
Sep 3, 2019
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A new study provides evidence that increasing the abundance of a threatened or endangered species can deliver large benefits to the citizens of the Pacific Northwest.
Ecology
Aug 14, 2019
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For several decades, gross domestic product (GDP), a sum of the value of purchased goods, has been a ubiquitous yardstick of economic activity. More recently, some observers have suggested that GDP falls short because it ...
Economics & Business
Mar 26, 2019
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As delegates at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, discuss the possibility of restraining global warming to 1.5℃, it might sound like a reasonable question to ask how much money it will cost if they fail.
Environment
Dec 13, 2018
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Money may not grow on trees, but trees themselves and all that they provide have a dollar value nonetheless.
Ecology
Jun 28, 2017
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The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to the natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists recently found after a six-year study of the impact of the largest oil spill in U.S. ...
Environment
Apr 20, 2017
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For decades, conservationists have focused on the possible costs of extinction: the effects on a lost species' predators, prey and environment, or the effects on people who can no longer use the species for food or clothing. ...
Environment
Apr 6, 2017
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