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New global economic outlook optimistic, but 'wild cards' could send things spiraling
Compared to what many others are predicting, a new presentation from prominent economist Christopher Thornberg delivers a more optimistic assessment of the long-term economic impacts that could result from the worldwide COVID-19 ...
Economics & Business
Apr 21, 2020
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Communicators should address failures, be transparent during crisis recovery, research finds
Crisis communicators play a vital role in how the public views a business immediately after an unexpected and disruptive situation. According to a recent University of Georgia study, it is essential that these professionals ...
Economics & Business
Oct 27, 2014
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In financial ecosystems, big banks trample economic habitats and spread fiscal disease
(Phys.org)—Like the impact of an elephant herd grazing on grassland, multinational banks shape the financial environment to an extent that far outweighs their small number. And like a contagious person on a transnational ...
Economics & Business
Nov 14, 2012
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River people: Life along Asia's key waterways
From the flood-ravaged banks of the Brahmaputra to the disappearing wetlands of the Mekong, Asia's main waterways—and the people that live along them—are fighting for survival.
Environment
Jan 10, 2020
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Naturally regrowing forests are helping to protect the remaining old forests in the Amazon
The climate crisis and UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration have generated great interest in the value of secondary forests. These are forests that have regrown naturally on land abandoned from agriculture.
Plants & Animals
Nov 13, 2023
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Climate crisis drives Mediterranean coral populations to collapse
A new study led by teams of the Faculty of Biology, the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, and the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) of Barcelona has revealed that marine heatwaves ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 19, 2022
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China to overhaul struggling solar panel industry
(AP)—China's government says it will encourage mergers among producers of solar panels to strengthen an industry that has suffered huge losses due to excess production capacity and price-cutting wars.
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 20, 2012
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Europe needs to engage and invest in national R&D budgets
In June's edition of Physics World Portugal's former science and technology minister, José Mariano Gago, calls for more investment in, and engagement with, national science budgets in light of the European Union's (EU) stagnated ...
Other
Jun 3, 2013
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Financial mania: Why bankers and politicians failed to heed warnings of the credit crisis
Western economies displayed the same kind of manic behaviour as psychologically disturbed individuals in the run up to the 2008 credit crisis -- and it could happen again, according to a new study.
Economics & Business
Jun 7, 2012
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