The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year led to a devastating loss of jobs and income across the global south, threatening hundreds of millions of people with hunger and lost savings and raising an array of risks for ...
Social Sciences
Feb 5, 2021
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The number of people searching online for topics that are related to boredom, loneliness and worry rose sharply at the beginning of the first lockdown, a new study shows.
Economics & Business
Feb 1, 2021
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Planting trees and preventing deforestation are considered key climate change mitigation strategies, but a new analysis finds the cost of preserving and planting trees to hit certain global emissions reductions targets could ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2020
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Using computer simulations of a model by U.S. Nobel Laureate William Nordhaus, researchers have weighted climate damage from increasing weather extremes, decreasing labor productivity and other factors against the costs ...
Environment
Jan 27, 2020
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Never-ending campaigns, social media, 24-hour news cycles. Politics are impossible to escape, even for the casual observer.
Social Sciences
Sep 25, 2019
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A new Cornell University-led study describes the first successful rearing of engineered tobacco plants in order to produce medical and industrial proteins outdoors in the field, a necessity for economic viability, so they ...
Biotechnology
Jul 8, 2019
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92
Applying the economics of climate change to antimicrobial resistance could help to avert the 10 million deaths that are predicted to occur by 2050 if urgent action isn't taken, research involving University of Exeter finds.
Economics & Business
Apr 5, 2019
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61
A new "virtual gas field simulator" developed by Stanford scientists aims to help companies and government agencies weigh the economic costs and benefits of different methane leak detection technologies and pick the best ...
Environment
Apr 20, 2016
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261
Despite the ever-changing landscape of energy economics, subject to the influence of new technologies and geopolitics, a new tool promises to root discussions about the cost of nuclear energy in hard evidence rather than ...
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 24, 2015
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A new study published online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is the first to determine whether genetic changes resulting from fishing pressure have any significant economic effects for the case ...
Ecology
Jul 16, 2013
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