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Economics & Business Jun 17, 2025

Lower revenues, pricier loans: How flooding in Europe affects firms and the financial system they depend on

In Europe, the fastest-warming continent, the intensification of extreme weather events and changes in precipitation patterns have led to widespread and catastrophic flooding. Last year, storms and flooding affected an estimated ...

Economics & Business Jun 11, 2025

Family homesteads with tangled titles are contributing to rural America's housing crisis

Imagine your parents leave you and your siblings a share of land that's been in your family for generations. Several of your relatives already live on the land, and you'd like to do the same; but you can't get a loan to build ...

Economics & Business Jun 11, 2025

You're probably richer than you think because of the safety net, but you'd have more if you lived in Norway

How wealthy are you? Like most people, you would probably do some math before answering this question. You would add up the money in your bank accounts, the value of your investments and any equity in a home you own, then ...

Environment Jun 10, 2025

Open dumping in Ghana contributes to flood risk and urban vulnerability

A study in the International Journal of Environment and Waste Management has found a direct link between Ghana's mounting urban flooding challenges and unregulated waste disposal practices. The findings have significant consequences ...

Social Sciences Jun 10, 2025

Low-income homeowners in flood zones risk becoming 'climate prisoners'

Climate change-related flooding poses growing systemic threats to the British residential property market, insurance sector and mortgage lending system, academics have warned.

Economics & Business Jun 10, 2025

Some economists have called for a radical 'global wealth tax' on billionaires. How would that work?

Earlier this year, I attended a housing conference in Sydney. The event's opening address centered on the way Australia seems to be becoming like 18th-century England—a country where inheritance largely determines one's opportunities ...

Environment Jun 4, 2025

Extreme weather's true damage cost is often a mystery. That's a problem for understanding storm risk

On Jan. 5, 2025, at about 2:35 in the afternoon, the first severe hailstorm of the season dropped quarter-size hail in Chatham, Mississippi. According to the federal storm events database, there were no injuries, but it caused ...

Environment May 30, 2025

Harmful effects of gas cookers on health and the environment reviewed in report

Researcher Juana M. Delgado is explaining the findings of a scientific report to the UK Parliament. The report, presented last year by the UJI, UV, and IDIAP Jordi Gol, details the situation in Europe and Great Britain.

Social Sciences May 27, 2025

Why some towns lose local news—and others don't

Why did your hometown newspaper vanish while the next town over kept theirs?

Ecology May 13, 2025

Why protecting wildland is crucial to American freedom and identity

As summer approaches, millions of Americans begin planning or taking trips to state and national parks, seeking to explore the wide range of outdoor recreational opportunities across the nation. A lot of them will head toward ...

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