25/08/2025

Out-of-home care for children in Finland has doubled

Out-of-home care is the last resort in child welfare intervention, where a child is removed from their home and placed in alternative care to protect their well-being. The reasons for these placements are complex but may ...

Research disproves advantages of exotic tree species in forestry

An international research team, including experts from the Ecological-Botanical Garden (ÖBG) at the University of Bayreuth, has demonstrated in a new study that native tree species in Argentina grow at a similar rate to introduced ...

How do we change the way we eat?

On July 16, 1976, as America celebrated its bicentennial year, a dozen farmers gathered at a parking lot at East 59th Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan to start a different sort of revolution. They lined up their trucks ...

In the Arctic, consequences of heat waves linger

Throughout the first half of 2020, average monthly temperatures in Siberia reached 6°C above the norm. The situation climaxed on 20 June, when the temperature in the town of Verkhoyansk climbed to 38°C (100.4°F), the highest ...

Why gold may be losing its shine as a safe-haven investment

The price of gold reached a historic high in April and remains close to that value. Conventional investing wisdom puts gold as a "safe-haven" asset—one that investors move toward in times of crises as they desert higher-risk ...

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