Reducing air pollution: How can changing behaviors help?
Changing people's behaviors is key to improving urban air quality, but it should be done in a way that involves the community, say researchers.
Changing people's behaviors is key to improving urban air quality, but it should be done in a way that involves the community, say researchers.
Environment
Oct 4, 2021
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Social inequality can incite collective violence in an experimental setting, finds a new study by UCL researchers.
Social Sciences
Sep 22, 2021
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In 2019 the climate movement experienced an unprecedented growth in its mobilization capacity and its political and media impact. The success of the movement is closely linked to the figure of Greta Thunberg and the global ...
Environment
May 4, 2021
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Americans who lived near chapters of the far-right Proud Boys organization were more likely to have attended the Jan. 6 rally that turned into a riot on the U.S. Capitol, according to a new research from a University of Chicago ...
Social Sciences
Feb 18, 2021
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A University of Otago study explored factors which influence Americans' levels of concern over climate change, providing discussion on how those factors could impact mitigation efforts.
Environment
Jan 28, 2021
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The "Doomsday Clock" illustrating the perils facing the planet and mankind will remain at 100 seconds to midnight this year amid the threats of the coronavirus pandemic, nuclear war and climate change.
Other
Jan 27, 2021
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Two separate economic studies point to a grim current economic reality in South Africa. Close to 3 million jobs lost due to the COVID-19 lockdown in April were not recovered again by June 2020. Also by June, one in every ...
Social Sciences
Jan 5, 2021
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To meet the most ambitious 1.5ยบ C climate goal requires a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels and mass use of renewables. However, new international research by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat ...
Environment
Dec 1, 2020
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A new study published by the European Forest Institute calls for collective action to put nature at the heart of the economy and set the world on a sustainable path.
Environment
Oct 6, 2020
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Newly published research in Science Advances by University of Chicago researcher Luis Bettencourt proposes a new perspective and models on several known paradoxes of cities. Namely, if cities are engines of economic growth, ...
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2020
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