Here comes La Nina, El Nino's flip side, but it will be weak
La Nina, the cool flip side to El Nino, has returned, forecasters said Thursday.
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Exascale and the city
Walk around any city neighborhood and chances are it looks nothing like it did 20 years ago. Thanks to growing urbanization, cities globally are rapidly expanding and accounting for more of our world's population, gross domestic ...
Can the world's megacities survive the digital age?
Today, megacities have become synonymous with economic growth. In both developing and developed countries, cities with populations of 10 million or more account for one-third to one-half of their gross domestic product.
Smart homes could worsen domestic abuse—but the same technology may also make us safer
Digital technology is increasingly used in domestic and family violence, and the so-called "smart home" could make it worse.
STSR tests confirm that dogs have self-awareness
A new study carried out by the Department of Psychology at Barnard College in the U.S. used a sniff test to evaluate the ability of dogs to recognize themselves. The results have been published in the journal Behavioural ...
Domestic abuse 'workshops' reduce repeat offending and harm to public
The first domestic abuse policing strategy in UK history to be trialled under experimental conditions has found that an inexpensive two-day course in behaviour management for first offenders resulted in 35% fewer men reoffending ...
Study examines fathers' experiences of child protection process
New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) challenges assumptions that men in child protection cases do not stay involved in children's lives and always, or only, pose a risk of harm to their child—fathers in ...
Designating biosphere reserves improves the life quality of the citizens
Initially, protected areas had a single, major aim which was to protect biodiversity; today, by contrast, the promotion human well-being is also an important aim. The relationship between the environmental conservation and ...
Using dogs to find cats—overcoming the challenges of tracking cheetahs
Cheetahs are Africa's rarest big cat. Only an estimated 7,000 individuals are thought to survive in the wild. They're spread across 32 populations covering a vast area of more than 3 million square kilometres. Cheetah densities ...
US fishing generated more than $200 billion in sales in 2015; two stocks rebuilt in 2016
U.S. commercial and recreational fishing generated $208 billion in sales, contributed $97 billion to the gross domestic product, and supported 1.6 million full- and part-time jobs in 2015—above the five year average, according ...
