Japan's economy is under pressure from rising energy prices and defense costs and the impact of the pandemic. Plummeting birth rates and an aging population further threaten the sustainability of its labor market. A 2023 ...
Economics & Business
Aug 17, 2023
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The notion of "degrowth" is gaining traction among some politicians in Europe. It was given a platform recently at the European Parliament's "Beyond Growth" conference.
Economics & Business
Aug 1, 2023
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In response to climate change and environmental breakdown, degrowth has become one of the key concepts in political ecology and related disciplines. Degrowth provides a critique of the ideology of growth measured as Gross ...
Environment
Jul 27, 2023
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The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has developed a renewable adhesive that allows for repeated bonding and debonding, and can reset the substrate and adhesive to their original state when needed.
Polymers
Jul 27, 2023
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The transition to an environmentally sustainable economy has begun, but it will be a generation (about twenty years) before we will see moderation of global warming. The cost of reducing climate pollution faster would be ...
Environment
Jul 17, 2023
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It is widely believed that China's socialist economy had relatively high rates of extreme poverty, while the capitalist reforms of the 1980s and 1990s delivered rapid progress, with extreme poverty declining from 88% in 1981 ...
Economics & Business
Jul 14, 2023
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has done a lot of damage to the Ukrainian scientific system. The ongoing war has damaged physical infrastructure, thousands of Ukrainian scientists have fled their country ...
Economics & Business
Jul 7, 2023
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When asked to situate the world's most iconic rainforest on a map, most people will pinpoint Brazil. And given the intense media coverage of the country's deforestation and fires—concerns reached a peak under former president ...
Environment
Jul 5, 2023
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The Supreme Court has struck down the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness plan. In Biden v. Nebraska, the court ruled 6 to 3 on June 30, 2023, that the secretary of education does not have the authority to forgive ...
Education
Jul 3, 2023
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Using an extensive computer simulation of the climate, the global economy and the global energy system, researchers at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have been analyzing different ways of mitigating climate change, together ...
Environment
Jun 30, 2023
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