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Environment Jan 31, 2023

Auckland floods: Even stormwater reform won't be enough. We need a 'sponge city' to avoid future disasters

We've built our cities to be vulnerable to—and exacerbate—major weather events such as the one we saw in Auckland on Friday. While almost no city in the world could fully escape the effects of four months' worth of rain ...

Social Sciences Jan 30, 2023

How 20 minute neighborhoods are about more than proximity

The desire to reduce car dependence is about promoting health, well-being and social equity and cohesion as much as it is about transitioning to a zero-carbon economy.

Social Sciences Jan 30, 2023

Tyre Nichols' killing by police: Why is this still happening?

Video footage was released today of the interaction between Memphis police officers and Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who died just days after being beaten by police during a Jan. 7 traffic stop.

Environment Jan 27, 2023

Gas stoves: Why did they become the pariah du jour?

One-third of U.S. households—more than 40 million homes—cook with gas. There has been much consternation about the danger of gas stoves in the news lately and talk of banning them since a Consumer Product Safety commissioner ...

Economics & Business Jan 13, 2023

Decade of progress on making England's homes safer threatened by austerity and the pandemic

In her ruling on the death of two-year old Awaab Ishak in Rochdale in 2020, senior coroner Joanne Kearsley concluded that the child had died as a result of "prolonged exposure to mold in his home environment."

Environment Jan 9, 2023

On this flooded island of homeless people, climate change has never been more real

The raft to Bannon Island does not inspire confidence. But Dyrone Woods climbed aboard the piece of crumbling Styrofoam secured to the remains of a wood pallet anyway.

Earth Sciences Dec 27, 2022

Homes that survived Boulder County fire hid another disaster inside: Research details this urban wildfire health risk

On Dec. 30, 2021, one of the most destructive wildfires on record in Colorado swept through neighborhoods just a few miles from our offices at the University of Colorado Boulder. The flames destroyed over 1,000 buildings, ...

Space Exploration Dec 27, 2022

NASA makes asteroid defense a priority, moving its NEO surveyor mission into the development phase

There's an old adage in the engineering field—what gets funded gets built. So it's sure to be a happy time over at the Planetary Society, as NEO Surveyor, the project the organization has primarily supported over the past ...

Veterinary medicine Dec 22, 2022

'To save our pets, we need to know our neighbors': Lessons from the Marshall Fire

More than 1,000 pets perished in the Marshall Fire, many of them trapped inside their homes as guardians who had left for the day desperately tried to devise a plan to free them, according to new CU Boulder research.

Social Sciences Dec 19, 2022

Study finds higher air pollution in low-income areas affects early childhood development

The study of concentrated poverty and its effects on kids and social mobility has been a sociological topic for a long time, but new research published in Science Advances is among the first to explore neighborhood effects ...

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