Climate researcher Sonia Seneviratne contributed to the latest assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). As she highlights here, the new report clearly demonstrates that we can't afford to ...
Environment
Aug 10, 2021
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We live in a society where disabled people routinely suffer identity-based discrimination resulting in them being made to feel unequal.
Social Sciences
Jul 27, 2021
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Retail traders often fear that reducing the amount of urban space made available for parking private vehicles would have a negative effect on their businesses. A survey conducted by researchers from the Institute for Advanced ...
Economics & Business
Jul 20, 2021
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Access to high-quality public transportation can make communities more equitable by increasing access to critical opportunities such as employment, health care and healthy food, particularly for low-income individuals and ...
Social Sciences
Jul 15, 2021
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As much as 20% of premature mortality can be attributed to poor urban and transport planning. Nevertheless, quantitative indicators to guide the integration of health components into urban design have been lacking. To address ...
Social Sciences
Jun 23, 2021
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Cities must become fully car-free in order to be liveable in the future, according to the UCL experts behind a new modeling report looking at urban car use.
Social Sciences
Jun 23, 2021
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Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, together with epidemiologist Lone Simonsen from Roskilde University form part of the panel advising the Danish government on how to tackle the different infection-spreading ...
General Physics
Jun 21, 2021
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Extreme temperatures like the ones blistering the American West this week aren't just annoying, they're deadly.
Environment
Jun 19, 2021
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A James Cook University researcher has called for travel medicine organizations to focus more on the needs of women, who face a particular range of challenges when they travel.
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2021
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A new article analyzes Chile's transition in 1990 from dictatorship to democracy, the nature of democracy between 1990 and 2019, and the appearance of several social movements geared to expanding this democracy. The article, ...
Political science
Jun 15, 2021
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