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Environment Sep 10, 2020

7 lessons Canada should use from WW2 to fight the climate emergency

Canada's approach to climate change for the past 30 years is simply not working. Greenhouse gas emissions in the year 2018 (the last year for which we have statistics) were almost exactly where they were in the year 2000.

Environment Sep 9, 2020

How Australia's environmental scientists are being silenced

Ecologists and conservation experts in government, industry and universities are routinely constrained in communicating scientific evidence on threatened species, mining, logging and other threats to the environment, our ...

Environment Aug 31, 2020

California is on fire. From across the Pacific, Australians watch and buckle up

California is ablaze, again. Currently, the second and third largest fires in the US state's history are burning at the same time, and are only partially controlled. Already, seven people have died and 2,144 structures are ...

Environment Aug 26, 2020

What social media can teach us about human-environment relationships

Recent ecological research used Instagram posts to analyze the preferences of visitors to natural areas around the world. Researchers deduced the activities and feelings that people associated with different environments, ...

Other Aug 4, 2020

Will COVID-19 mark the end of scientific publishing as we know it?

Randy Schekman is getting a bit tired of talking about this.

Education Aug 4, 2020

'Exhausted beyond measure': what teachers are saying about COVID-19 and the disruption to education

All Victorian school students will be learning remotely from Wednesday. Prior to the state's premier Daniel Andrews announcing a tightening of restrictions over the weekend, only students in prep to Year 10 in Melbourne and ...

Economics & Business Jul 30, 2020

The future of work is flexible, says new study

New research from the University of Kent and the University of Birmingham has found that mass homeworking during the COVID-19 lockdown has presented significant challenges for parents, particularly mothers, but has also changed ...

Education Jul 20, 2020

Addressing anti-Black racism in post-secondary institutions can transform Canada after the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 has brought issues of racism and inequality in our education systems into stark relief. We must now consider the role of colleges and universities in transforming Canada for the better after coronavirus.

Environment Jul 18, 2020

Brazil's Bolsonaro under pressure to protect Amazon

Faced with investors demanding "results" in the fight against Amazon deforestation, Brazil's government seems to be performing something of an about-face, although it will have to work to convince skeptics.

Social Sciences Jul 9, 2020

If Canada is serious about confronting systemic racism, we must abolish prisons

Global uprisings in response to anti-Black police brutality have prompted demands to defund policing and reinvest in communities. Public health professionals recognize the connections between racism and community well-being. ...

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