Hoping to win over customers, businesses from Amazon to Zoom have taken to touting their good deeds in corporate social responsibility reports.
Economics & Business
Oct 29, 2024
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Fancy, high-quality products such as Rolex watches and Red Wing boots often cost more to make but last longer. This is a principle that manufacturers and customers are familiar with. But while this also applies to biology, ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 29, 2024
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This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain—pronounced SAW-en. But as a historian of Ireland and its medieval literature, I can tell you: Samhain ...
Other
Oct 29, 2024
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Cannabis legalization is on the ballot again this November.
Social Sciences
Oct 29, 2024
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Climate change is altering species distributions across the world, and this is particularly marked in the Arctic where warming is occurring most rapidly.
Ecology
Oct 29, 2024
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Boreal forests and Arctic tundra are underlain by millions of square kilometers of permafrost, and scientists are still unsure of how the thawing of this long-frozen soil will affect the climate. Soils and vegetation in the ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2024
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If you're a pet owner, you may have noticed increases in your vet bills in recent years. The average cost of pet booster injections increased by 48% in the UK between 2020 and early 2024, while pet insurance prices rose by ...
Veterinary medicine
Oct 29, 2024
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Some of the ways migrants are exploited in the workforce get a lot of public attention. We hear tragic stories about wage theft, forced unpaid overtime, unsafe work conditions or discrimination. And we are likely to hear ...
Social Sciences
Oct 29, 2024
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The various regulatory systems for approving pesticides in operation around the world are crude and flawed. This has long been clear to scientists and it is deeply worrying, as this regulation is supposed to protect people ...
Ecology
Oct 29, 2024
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As the US presidential election inches closer, a recent survey found that the economy is the top issue for voters, and many are also concerned about health care, foreign policy and inequality. Amid all the noise about these ...
Economics & Business
Oct 29, 2024
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